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A45178 The spirituall verses and prose of James Hunt concerning the advancment of Christ his glorious and triumphing church : which by degrees shall flourish over the face of the whole world, which will be to the overthrow of the Divill, and the false church. Hunt, James, 17th cent. 1643 (1643) Wing H3736; ESTC R2040 13,960 18

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in this world but I shall prove that Christ doth present his whole Church perfect before God the Father For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctefied Heb. 10. 14. But some people may say how are we sanctified My answer is through beliefe and obedience to the truth for Christ saith plainly Iohn 17. Sanctefy them through thy truth Thy word is truth Christ is the word and the word is Christ which is revealed in his glorious Gospel Again I can prove that Christ hath a triumphing Church here upon earth but that the Bishops and their Clergy utterly deny But if I aske any of them if they beleeve that the Gospel of Christ was preached by Christ and his Apostles here on earth they will answer yea then I answer to them again as in 2 Cor. 2. 14. Now thanks be to God who alwaies causeth us to triumph in Christ Iesus for Mercy Love and Charity rejoyceth and triumpheth against judgment for S. Iames saith plainly He shall have judgment without mercy which sheweth no mercy and mercy rejoiceth against judgement But what judgment I say not against the righteous judgment of God but against rhe divill and his false and deceivable judgment thus I have proved in briefe that God hath a triumphant Church here upon earth Againe I can prove that all those people that are and shall be sanctified by the divine power of the word of God they are thereby made both God and man but that the Bishops and all their Clergy utterly deny but if I aske any of them if Christ be not God and man they will answer yea then my answer is 1 Iohn 4. 17. as he is so are we in this world For know you not how that Christ is in you except ye be reprobates 2 Cor. 18. 5. again 1 Cor. 6. 19. What know you not that your body is the Temple of the Holyghost which is in you again Eph. 4. 4. There is one body and one spirit one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all Now if God the Father and God the Sonne and God the Holy Ghost be in his people by the divine power of their word I hope there is no man can prove me a lyer because I say Christ and his Church is God and man for as a temporall tree hath a aboundance of boughs and branchès and all make but one tree so on the other side all those people that shall be reconciled to Christ and to the obedience of his word they shall be joyned to his glorious body and all make but one compleat body though they shall be infinite in number for the Apostle saith plainly Col. 2. Ye are compleat in him who is the head of the Principalities and powers Again as a temporall tree all the boughs and branches have their life and nourishment from the roote and stock so on the other side all the children of God have their life and nourishment from Christ and the divine power of his word which is revealed in his Gospel Again I can prove that all those people that are and shall be sanctified by the divine power of the Word of God they are thereby made Kings Priests and Prophets to God but the Bishops and their Clergy say there shall be no more Prophets but I have proved and shall prove that that they themselves are all false Prophets which oppose themselves against the plaine truth of God It is written Reve. 1 By the blood of Christ we are made Kings and Priests unto God the Father This point of Scripture doth plainly prove that it is not in a Bishops power to make a man a Priest for the spirit of God proves plainly it is by the vertue and divine power of the bloud of Christ Again 1 Pet. 2. Ye are a royall Priesthood to shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darknes into his marvilous light But how shall the people shew and set forth those Riches and Honour and Glory that belongeth to Christ and his Church but by declaring of his Word which is revealed in his Gospel wherefore I praise God I plainly understand because the Bishops and their Clergy will suffer none but themselves to be teachers in the Churches but now I make no doubt but God will have his power knowne that he will allow and maintaine that al his people shall be preachers according to that rule which the Apostle sets forth 1 Cor. 14. 29. Let the Prophets speake two or three and let the other judge for yee may all Prophecy one by one that all may learne and all may be comforted For to Prophecy is to open and unfold the Mysteries and Parables in the new Testament to the true meaning and signification againe he saith in the 37. verse If any man thinke himselfe to be a Prophet or spirituall let him acknowledge that these things that I write unto you are the Commandements of the Lord. Marke I beseech you the saying of the Apostle first he exhorts the people saying When the Church are come together they all may Prophecy one by one that is in an orderly and decent way for these things that I write are the Commandements of the Lord Hereby I plainly understand and prove that God hath commanded that every man should have free liberty to exercise his gift according to that measure of grace which God hath given him now because I have desired to declare my mind to the people in Churches to the praise and glory of God as he hath commanded me to do by the divine power of his spirit above which is agreeable to his word here below for this cause I have bin ten times cast into prison Againe one of the Church-Wardens a Schoole-Master which by his Greeke and Latine tongues hath advanced himselfe to a great deale of Worldly wealth he commanded two of his Schollers to hang me in the Church for they and he flew upon me and put a cord about my necke and had almost mur thered me in the Church Now I made my complaint to a Magistrate but his answer was that I had no authority to speake in the Church Indeed I have no authority from the Bishops but I hope all those that shall read my booke or here it read may plainly understand that I have authority from a glorious God whose power and authority will be found to be greater then the Bishops wherefore I now appeale to the most Honorable High Court of Parliament hopeing to find mercy and justice at your hands for I have already proved the Bishops and all their Clergy to be theeves and robbers and now I shall prove them againe to be murtherers in a spirituall way for the Apostle saith plainly 2 Cor. 3. the Letter killeth I understand and shall prove that the Letter that killeth signifieth the Divill and the old Law for the old Law is the spirit of bondage and so is the Divill for