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A93931	A second champion, or, Companion to truth: Wherein is shewed these particulars, or tenets. 1 Of miracles. 2 The reasons wherefore so few imbrace the gospell. 3 Of the first covenant, and the second covenant. 4 Of the father and the son. 5 Of Heaven. 6 Of Hell. 7 Of Glory. 8 Of faith. 9 Of the resurrection, and the eternall judgement. 10 Of visible worship. 11 A postscript. By Richard Stookes preacher of the Gospell	Stooks, Richard, fl. 1651-1652.	1650 (1650)	Wing S5740cA; ESTC R231910	98,234	235

as darknesse in respect of the great Judge for the Judge himselfe shall be their everlasting Light being indeed the great Court of Heaven more cleare then the Sunne for the light thereof doth darken the light of the Sunne and Moone which makes it appeare that this glorious Judge and this glorious Court of Heaven will not be so soone removed 6. The Bookes are to be opened and every man is to be judged according to those things that are written in those Bookes and there must be a time to open the Bookes and a time to judge and examine every matter and every person particularly according to his deeds whereby it doth appeare that the great Court of Heaven will not be so soone removed 7. The pleading of the Prisoners at the Bar doth make it appeare that the Court shall not be removed for the Prisoners at the Bar of Justice will plead and say Lord in thy name we have Prophesied and cast out Devills and done many wonderfull workes And when saw we thee in Prison or in sicknesse or hungry or naked or the like whereby it doth appeare that the pleading of Prisoners and the answerings of the Judge doth hold forth a longer time to us then we suppose to sit in judgement 8. If every Person should not be called to account in particular there might be some excuse in the Creature for then they might say I nor I was not judged but the Iudge will not passe over things so lightly for they are matters upon Life and Death 〈◊〉 upon eternall life and death and therefore ●●oth appeare that the great Iudge will examine every man to the full with every particular thing and with so many Millions of thousands to be judged in particular doth make it appeare that the great Iudge cannot be so soon removed 9. Christ saith that the Apostles shall sit upon twelve Thrones and shall judge the twelve Tribes of Israel even such as are revolted from Iesus Christ and have rejected grace and mercy offered them in the Sonne and have shed the blood of the Prophets and Apostles through their wickednesse and therefore it doth appeare that Christ will make his twelve Apostles to sit downe upon twelve Thrones and they shall be the great Iury-men of Christ to give in their verdict for life or death and what they doe shall be approved of by Christ for the Iewes being a most wise and subtill people shall have the more able Iudges to deale with them and who are more fit for that worke then the Apostles who shall be the grand Iudges or the grand Iury to give in their evidences to the chiefe Judge against them and the Judge also consenting to their judgement For whose sinnes they remit they shall be remitted and whose sinnes they retaine they shall be retained And this being so it doth appear that the Court shal not be so soon removed Mat. 19. 28. Luk. 22. 30. 10. The Apostles shall judge the Angels and give judgement against them and when will that be but at the great day for they are reserved in chaines of darknesse untill the great day and then shall they appear before the Grand Jury who shall give their Judgement against them and deliver them to the chiefe Judge who shall passe sentence upon them for ever to be cast into the anger and wrath of the Almighty for this is the great day of judgement which hath been spoken of so long before which will not be ended in a small time 11. It is said that the Saints shall judge the world and that cannot be in a small time seeing there is so many millions of thousands to be judged with the examination of every particular action and yet they will not be idle all the time nor rejourne the Court like idle Judges for it shall be no night all the time of the judgement neither will they stir untill they have accomplished that great work● for I conceive there will be as much hastening of the worke as may be even round about the Throne and the twelve Patriarchs judging those before the Flood with the twelve Apostles judging those under the Law and the Ministers of the Gospel judging those under the Gospel for it is said The Saints shal judge the world 1 Cor. 6. 2. And al these great things cannot be done in a small time for all the Prisoners pleading at the Bar on the one side the Judges giving sentence on the other side with their examining of all causes doth make it appear that this great Court will not be so soon removed as some think 12. The Scripture doth declare that after the new heavens and earth are made that the Saints shall reign with Christ in abundance of glory which I conceive must be all the time of the judgement for it will not be before the new heavens and earth as the Scripture seems to hold forth but after the new heavens and earth and then will the Lord Jesus come and all the Saints with him and then shall the Saints reigne in glory even all the time of the sitting of the great Judge which I beleeve will be the account of a thousand yeares and about Jerusalem shall be the Throne of their glory and they shall be filled with the fulnesse of delight in all that time and then will the dwelling of God be with men and they shall be the new Jerusalem being cloathed with their house from heaven and God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes For there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying nor any paine for all their former troubles being passed away for Jerusalem will be more glorious then ever it was in the world before with her gates and wals most glorious and such a glorious City it will be as never yet was seen the glory of which place will enlighten both heaven and earth and shall darken all the host of heaven being a place for the Saints of the most High where they shall rest all the time of the sitting of the great Judge for this will be a new Jerusalem indeed a place of glory untill the great Judge hath finished his worke upon the earth and in this new Jerusalem of the Saints there shall be no Temple nor any worship injoyned for this will be all their work to offer up praises unto him that shall sit upon the Throne for the Father and the Son are the Temple of this glorious City and this City wil have no need of Sun or Moon for the Father and the Son will be the light thereof and all the Nations which shall be saved shall walk in the light of this City and there shal their glory be for the Gates of this City shal not be shut at all by day for there shal be no night and this wil be a glorious rest for the Saints all the fitting of the great Judge Re. 22. And then shall the Lord roar out of Zion and utter his voyce from Jerusalem

is declared to be righteous and just and the justifier of all that believe in him Rom. 8. 25 26. so that as by the offence of one many were made sinners even so by the righteousnesse of Christ shall many be made righteous Rom. 5. 19. And for this work of his God hath highly exalted him and hath made him Heir of all things Heb. 1. 2. And thus you see that Christ hath done the work of the first Covenant and so is the end thereof Thirdly Christ takes away the first by establishing the second for finding fault with the first he saith Behold the dayes come saith the Lord that I will make or establish a new Covenant and so he takes away the first that he may establish the second Heb. 10. 9. and so Christ is become a Minister of a better Covenant established upon better promises Heb. 8. 6. For if the first had been found faultlesse there had been no place found for the second but finding fault with the first he saith Behold the dayes come saith the Lord that I will make a new Covenant and in that he saith a new Covenant he hath made the first old and that which is old is ready to vanish away Heb. 8. 7. 8. 13. And thus you see the first was but a typicall Covenant and was but to continue untill a better came which is a better Covenant a better way then the former was Aud thus I have spoken a word or two of the first Covenant and now I shall speak a word or two of the second And first I shall shew you how the Covenant of grace is established and that is these three waies First by promise for no sooner there was a wound by the first Covenant but there was a promise of healing in the second saying the seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head as you may see Gen. 3. 15. and this was also promised to Noah Gen 6. 18. and more fully manifested to Abraham in many promises made unto him at divers sundry times Gen. 12. 3. and the 17. 7. and a more plainer promise was made to Moses as you may see Deut. 18. 18. where the Lord sheweth that he would send the great Prophet or Angell of his Covenant and would put his words into his mouth that he might speak all that the Father should command him ver 18. 19. And thus yon see all along how the Covenant was established by the promise of the Father Secondly The Covenant was established by prophecy as you may see Isa 42. 6. ch 49 6. as also in Jer. 31. 31. And it shall come to passe in the last daies that I will make a new Covenant with the House of Israel and with the house of Judah not according to the Covenant I made with their Fathers in the day that I tooke them by the hand to bring them out of Egypt which Covenant they brake though I was a husband unto them saith the Lord but this shall be the Covenant that I will make with them saith the Lord And thus you see that it was established by Prophecy Thirdly It was established by the bloud of the Testatour for a covenant is ratified by bloud as also the first covenant was for when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the Law he took the bloud of calves and of goats and sprinkled both the book and the people saying This is the bloud of the covenant which God hath enjoyned unto you for without bloud there is no remission Heb 9. 19. 20. 22. and therefore the second covenant was established and ratified with bloud even by the bloud of the Son of God Heb. 9. 14. For where a covenant is there must also be of necessity the death of the Testator ver 16. and therefore the bloud of Christ is called the bloud of the covenant Heb. 10. 29. chap. 12. 24. chap. 13. 20. And thus the Covenant is ratified and confirmed by the bloud of Christ which is the bloud of the everlasting covenant And thus I have shewed you in a word or two how the Covenant was established and now I shall speak a word or two of the Covenant it selfe now the essence or being of the Covenant is God who out of his 〈◊〉 love and unexpressible mercy and tender compassion was pleased to give a being to the Covenant to manifest to all men that he was not in anger but in love that though his anger lay in the Covenant of the flesh yet his love lay in the Covenant of the spirit for he seemed to shew anger in the type and shadow but his great love doth appear in the substance and truth in the Covenant of grace to manifest his great love to all men and thus much for the being of the Covenant and now for the matter of it Now the matter of the Covenant is the mind of God consisting of promises of love and mercy unto all men as you may see Luke 2. 10. 14. upon condition of obedience unto the Lawes and Ordinances of that Covenant proceeding from the minde of God from whence all the teaching of the Gospell and ordinances thereof do proceed as you see Deut. 18. 17 18. For the Son doth nothing of himselfe but what he hath received of the Father in being taught of the Father what to teach John 8. 20. 29. And so being to toach the mind of the Father both for promises and commands to the world from the minde of God and thus much for the matter of the Covenant consisting of Promises and Ordinances proceeding from the minde of the Father and now of the matter it selfe Now the Covenant of grace is called a testament or will being indeed the will of the Father revealed to the Son and by the Son revealed to the world to manifest the Fathers love unto the sonnes and daughters of men and testified to the world that what he declared was the minde of God and sealed it with his bloud and so his bloud is called the bloud of God or the bloud of the testament or will Heb. 10. 19. chap. 13. 20. Secondly It is called a new Covenant because it makes the first old and takes away the old bondage of the first that there might be Gospel-freedome in the second that so we may see how far the one doth exceed the other Thirdly It is called a new Covenant because it doth not wax old as the other did but is to continue for ever and is an everlasting Covenant which is to continue until the consummation of all things Mat. 28. Fourthly It is called a new Covenant because it is new in every age and to every generation it is a new covenant bringing new covenants in every age which are green and ●●urishing afresh in all generations to manifest the glory of the Gospell beyond the glory of the first the glory of the one decreasing and the glory of the other growng and increasing and thus much of the

mouth speaketh for thou shewest by thy words what is within for as thy heart is so are thy words but it is a signe there is no worship in thy heart because there is none in thy words or else thou dost dissemble with thy selfe Why ought we not as well to serve God in our Bodies as in our Soules Will the worship of God hinder us and why cannot we know as much in a visible way as thou dost out Dost thou thinke that the Worship of the Gospell and the Lawes and Ordinances thereof doth hinder us from knowing the minde of God sure this is but the doctrine of the Serpent for our obedience to the Commands of Jesus Christ doth not hinder us but further us to know his minde For the humble he will teach and he rejecteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble Our living in the Commands of Christ will not hinder us but helpe us to know the minde of God for the Promise is to such as walke in his way and that he that doth his Will shall know his minde and therefore it doth appeare that the Commands of Christ doth not hinder us from knowing the Mysteries of God thou wouldest take us off of our obedience from serving of God to serve the Devill for the Devill hath deceived thee and thou wouldest deceive as thou wouldest bring us out of order into confusion to walke in confusion like thy selfe thou art of no Religion and yet thou canst be of any and thy Religion changes as oft as thy thoughts thou art restlesse in thy thoughts and restlesse in thy life and also as restlesse in thy comforts for thou art in Babilon and the height of confusion for thou livest a confused life thou lyest in confusion and there thou livest how long wilt thou walke in confusion wilt thou not returne into order lest thou dye in confusion and fall into the wrath and anger of Jehovah FINIS A Postscript to a Party called Seekers or those that call themselves Mad-men which deny the Bible to be Scripture or the Word of GOD. THE Devill hath alwayes in all Ages sought to blinde the eyes of the people for he can fit himselfe for all Ages and he is more subtill in this Age then in other Ages and the reason I conceive is this because people are come to see further then they have done in former times into the word of God and his worship and therefore it is the subtilty of Sathan in these dayes to seeke to take us off all worship and to deny the Bible to be the word of God and so teaches men to deny that there is any rule to walke by but that every man may walke according to the dictates of his owne heart and as it seemeth good in his owne eyes and this is a pleasing bait to take the world with and here the old Serpent doth prevaile and snares the sonnes of men for this is the day he lookes for if he can take men off the word that thereby they may deny all Scriptures and all Visible Worship then they will be his owne children of the tribe of disobedience begotten by the seed of the Serpent and travelling towards the land of confusion that they may arrive at the anger of God and because the word is made so contemptible in these dayes I shall endeavour for the strengthning of some and the confirming of others to give you some reasons wherefore the things contained in the Bible are the word of God And first by the workes of Creation it doth appear that this is a truth for if the Lord hath taken so much care of the workes of Creation to preserve them doe you think that his care will bee lesse to preserve his Word Doth not hee magnifie his Name and his word above all things Psal 138. 2. And hath he not more care of his word with the letters and sillables thereof then of the Starres of heaven for if his care bee so great to preserve the workes of Creation how much more shall his care be to preserve his Word whereby his Name and Power might be known to all Nations 2 If the Letter and Word of the Old Testament were not true then what priviledge had the Jews which the Apostle speaks of in Rom. 3. 1. 2. That unto them were committed the Oracles of God now what praise is to the Jewes if their Oracles were not true then they had little priviledge above the Gentiles which is so much spoken of for if the Letter and Word be corrupted then what was their priviledge above other Nations 3 These sixteene hundred yeares and more since the Jewes have beene cast off from being the Church of God and have been scattered for their sinnes upon the face of the whole earth and have been the greatest enemies to the Gospell of any people and yet for all this it cannot be proved that they have corrupted the Scripture but that the Hebrew Text remaineth as it was in the Apostles dayes and shall wee thinke that they were lesse carefull in former times when they were the Church of God for they have been these many yeares so carefull that if any fault escaped the Scribe that Book was not allowed to bee read in their Synagogue untill it were corrected for they have these rules that if the Booke of the Law want but a letter or if the forme of any letter be not perfect it was for children and not for Church Maim in Sepher Torah C. 10. 4 What is 70 yeares to corrupt all Copies when as a Copy written on Parchment as their manner was will indure many 70 years intire Jeremiah with some Jews remained a while in the Land and Ezekiel Daniel with many godly men that were in Babylon with Ezra that learned Priest and Scribe came with the people out of Babylon and they had also other Prophets amongst them as Haggai Zachariah and Malachi and how doe you thinke that the Word should be corrupted having such a glorious company both of Prophets Scribes and wise men whereby it doth appeare that the Scripture is not corrupted but doth remaine the Word of God 5 Doth not Christ reprove the Priests and Scribes with the Pharisees for corrupting the Law by wrong interpretation as you may see Matth. 5. 15. and 23 Now it doth appeare if they had violated and falsified the Scriptures that Christ would have reproved them for it would not Christ have told them saying you have falsified the Scripture but he doth not and therefore it doth appeare that the Scriptures are true 6 If the Scriptures of the Old Testament had been false would Christ have exhorted them to have read the Scriptures Luke 16 Iohn 5. 2 Pet. 1 If they had beene wrong would not Christ and his Apostles have left a perfect Canon of the word to the Church and to all the world but we see that Christ doth confirme the Law in every point Mat. 5. 18. And therefore it doth appeare that