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A26986	Pneumatou diakonia, or, Gospel-churches a standing ordinance of Jesus Christ to continue to his next personal glorious coming, plainly proved : objections particularly answer'd / by an unworthy servant ... R.B.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1682 (1682)	Wing B1348; ESTC R30216	105,872	154

by Moses but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ No man hath seen God at any time the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father he hath declar'd him Heb. 1.1 2. God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past unto the Fathers by the Prophets hath in these last dayes spoken unto us by his Son 4. That all Persons whatsoever are obliged bound under the severest penalties to attend to whatever was revealed by this Prophet This is also enforc'd by a voice from the excellent Glory Mat. 17.5 This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear ye him So then the Scriptures of the New-Testament are our Directory whatever Christ hath enjoyn'd therein all Saints are to have regard to For what he declared from the Father is therein contain'd and no where else But II. There 's not the least intimation given by God the Father or this great Prophet of the Church of any other way or means of instruction in his Worship or Service but only the Scriptures 'T is true the Popelings talk of Traditions as did do the Jews before them and much of their Worship many of their orders is bottom'd upon receives its Original from pretended Visions Revelations the personal Appearance of the Virgin Mary yea of Christ himself as they vainly pretend and perhaps Satan might appear to them as an Angel of Light and avouch himself to be the Lord Christ As touching the Carthusians 't is acknowledg'd that Hugo who joyn'd with Bruno in laying the Foundations of that Order had a vision of Gods Building an House with seven Stars conducting them to a place call'd La grand Chartreuse from whence the whole Order hath taken its name The Order of the Carmelites was from a Vision that Simon Stock had wherein the blessed Virgin appear'd with the Habit in her Hand which she would have them wear with a Promise that whoever dyed in that Habit should not perish by everlasting Flames Innocent the third hath a Vision of St. Francis and St. Dominic supporting the Lateran Church whence the Franciscan and Dominican Orders sprang As for the Jesuits their Grandsire Ignatius was full of Visions Sometimes Peter appear'd to him sometimes the Virgin Mary with a great deal of Glory and her Child in her lap whereby he was greatly strengthned and incouraged But above all the strangest Vision he had was a Vision of the Blessed Trinity plainly under a corporeal Representation which fill'd him so full of Joy that he could not hold weeping before all the People and was so strangly enlightned by it that he began to write a Book of the glory of the Blessed Trinity In one of his Exstasies he continued eight dayes in which it's probable saith Orlandinus he saw the frame and model of the Society of the Jesuits Christ appeared to him once and again sometimes he was lift up from the ground the room where he was being fill'd with a great Light In a Vision he saw God the Father commending himself and his Brethren to his Son Jesus bearing his Cross whom he very kindly received and with a smile said to Ignatius I will be favourable to you at Rome which greatly comforted him and his Companions And in the issue it fell out accordingly his order being confirm'd by P. Paul the third his Bull dated Octob. 3. 1540. As were their Orders so their Festivals were instituted upon the bottom of pretended Visions and Revelations The Festival of Corpus Christi was instituted by Vrban the fourth in honour of Transubstantiation by the Revelation of a famous Virgin call'd Juliana which had many raptures and so prophetick a Spirit as to discern the thoughts and intentions of her neighbours hearts she wrestled with Devils discoursed with the Apostles and wrought many Miracles Bullar Rom. Tom. 1 p. 147. Paul the Hermite was Canonized for a Saint upon the Authority of a Vision and Revelation The Feast of Michael the Arch-Angel upon a Revelation to the Bishop of Siponto and a few Drovers upon the Mountain Garganus To which many more might be added These are the wayes Satan hath used to establish his Kingdom by and to introduce his false superstitious idolatrous Orders and Worship destructive to the bodyes and souls of Men. But in Christ's Doctrine Gospel there is a deep silence touching any such matter He himself and his Apostles after him introduce nothing upon the account of such Revelations but appeal to the Scriptures and prove their Doctrine from thence Not the least intimation is there of any way or means of instruction in his Worship but only the Scriptures If there be let the place be produced and we are satisfied If there be not as most certain there is not to hearken attend to Visions Revelations is to say no more unsafe dangerous Nor can it be consistent with the Love of the Father to his Church had he intended any other way of Instruction not to give the least notice of it to them nor with his Wisdom to make that discovery of his mind and will in the Scriptures to give it forth as our Rule when upon this supposition 't is a most imperfect one But III. God sends us to the Scripture for direction in this matter Isa 8.20 To the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to this word whatever their pretentions are of the morning or the breaking forth of a more glorious day it is because there is no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 morning in them They have not the Light of the Glorious morning they speak of Luke 16.29 They have Moses and the Prophets i. e. the writings of Moses and the Prophets let them hear them John 5.39 Search the Scriptures for in them ye think to have eternal life and they are they which testify of me IV. Jehovah himself in and under each Ministration hath commanded his People to observe whatever he hath appointed in the Scripture without Addition or Substraction Deut. 4.2 Ye shall not add to the word which I command you neither shall you diminish ought from it that ye may keep the Commandments of the Lord your God which I command you Chap. 12.32 What thing soever I command you observe to do it thou shalt not add thereto nor diminish from it Josh 1.7 That thou mayest observe to do according to all the Law which Moses my Servant commanded thee turn not from it to the right hand or to the left Prov. 30.5 6. Every word of God is pure Add thou not unto his words lest he reprove thee and thou be found a Liar Rev. 22.18 19. For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the Prophesie of this Book If any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto him the Plagues that are written in this Book And if any man shall take away from the words of the Book of this Prophesie God shall take away his part out of the Book

which is to come ver 4.8 11. doth intimate that he is treating of what reaches from the beginning of the Church to the latest Ages thereof even to the coming of Christ ver 7. 4. The preamble into the Vision of the seven Churches ver 10. and that of the seven Seales is so like that it seems they are both of like extent and importance 5. Else no Reason can be given 1. Why after the Spirit had given notice that this Book is a prophesie of things to come he should presently start from the title and intended subject to write Seven Epistles that have nothing considerable of Prophesie in them and that he should do this with as great pomp and as high a preamble as when he begins the Prophesie of the Seals and the open'd Book 2. Why the Epistles should be writ to the Churches of Asia rather than to the Churches of Europe and Affrick 3. Why he gives the precedency to this Church rather than that 4. Why just Seven neither more nor less 5. Why these seven rather than any others which might have the very same Vertues and Vices 6. Why Christ is described holding the Seven Stars in his right hand in the Epistles to the Churches of Ephesus and Sardis 7. Why the Church of Ephesus of all others should be commended for their trying false Apostles 8. Why 't is said to the Church of Smyrna more than to any other Be thou faithful nnto Death and I will give thee a Crown of Life 9. Why such an Ataxy in the ranging of the Churches that the two irreprehensible Churches Smyrna and Philadelphia are not joyned together Ephesus Sardis and Laodicea against whom there is no complaint of eating things offer'd to Idols and then Pergamos and Thy●tira in which there is 10. Why Christ before the Epistle to the Church in Pergamos is set out by a two-edged Sword and in the Church of Thyatira by his feet like fine Brass as if they burned in the Furnace for that supplement must be added 11. Why Antypas should be named by name in a Book so full of aenigmatical involutions 12. Why Christ expresseth a greater disgust against the Church of Laodicea than that of Sardis which is said to be quite dead 13. Why in every Epistle that phrase is used I know thy works which is a thing of small importance in the literal sense but in the prophetical it seems on purpose so repeated to intimate an allusion in Asia to the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was intended to answer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Asia may also be significant as well as the names of the Seven Churches 14. Why a particular Woman should be taken notice of by name in the Church of Thyatira more than others 15. Why the promise of ruling over the Nations and receiving the Morning-Star should be made to the Church of Thyatira more than others 16. Why the temptation that was to come upon all the World should be mention'd rather to the Church in Phyladelphia than others 17. Why upon her should be written the Name of the City of God c. 18. Why the Church of the Laodiceans should account her self so hugely rich increased in goods and to have no want in any thing 19. Why that phrase He that hath an ear to hear let him hear which our Saviour is found so often to add at the end of his Parables should be used in every Epistle they being no Parables but Epistles sent to each of those Churches in Asia respectively The sum is the seven Asiatick Churches were Types of the State of the Church or the Churches of Christ from that time to the end of all things There must then all along be Churches to answer to these Types Sometimes 't is true more Pure Spiritual Splendid Visible sometimes less as the Types of them represent but alwayes such as Christ ownes for his Churches and as such walks in the midst of them But further The State of the Churches as represented in the Book of the Revelation may be consider'd under a fourfold period of time I. The time of the Roman-Pagan Empire That then there were true Churches of Christ will not be denied Against them Satan the great red Dragon in that Pagan-state set himself with all the cruelty imaginable pouring out the blood of Myriads of the Lords faithful Ones These Churches wrestle with God night and day in Faith Prayer Supplication and at last the whole State as a just Judgment of God upon them for their cruelties exercised upon his Children passes away Rev. 6. These Churches are the Woman cloathed with the Sun having the Moon under her feet and upon her head a Crown of Twelve Stars Rev. 12.1 II. The time of the prophesying of the Witnesses which Synchronizes with the time of the Wild-Beast or Antichrist That during this time which is one thousand two hundred and sixty Dayes or fourty-two Months which according to the Grecian account thirty dayes to a Month is the same There were Gospel-Churches is evident For 1. The Witnesses themselves are such therefore call'd Two Candlesticks Rev. 11.4 These are the two Olive-Trees and the two Candlesticks standing before the Lord of the Earth Candlesticks Who or what are they The Palmoni wonderful numberer the interpreter one of a thousand shall answer for us and one would think the interpretation he gives should pass without question among those who call themselves by his name Rev. 1.20 The seven Candlesticks which thou sawest are seven Churches Object But why here but two Candlesticks Answ The Antichristian apostacy had now so far prevailed that Christ could own but a few as standing in such a relation unto himself 2. During this period there is a Temple of God an Altar and such as Worship therein which can denote nothing less than a Gospel-Church-state and Gospel-Worshippers therein in opposition to the Court without and Holy City which is given to the Gentiles or Antichristians to tread under foot Rev. 11.1 2. And this Temple c. is to be measured with a Rod ver 1. 'T will not be altogether impertinent to enquire what 's held forth by the Measuring of the Temple c. Five things I humbly conceive the Spirit of the Lord intends by it 1. The Churches of Christ that were in a Witness for him being reduced to more Purity and Scripture-simplicity than was with them a little before Through the cunning working of the man of Sin though then in a Mystery professors had not a little swerved from Scripture-rule The body generality of these are swallowed up in the Antichristian Apostacy a little remnant are awakened to stand up as Witnesses for Christ and they perceiving disorders amongst themselves reduce all to the Scripture-standard The only way to heal all the differences amongst Christians touching Worship at this day 2. The paucity of true sincere Worshippers so few that they might easily be Measured 3. The