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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
the Apostle saith plainly and so say I Rom. 7. 6. Now we are delivered from the Law that being dead wherein we were held as held under the chaines ●nd bondage of Sathan that we should serve in newnes of spirit and not in the oldnesse of the Letter I say in the newnesse of the Gospel not in the oldnesse of the Law but the Bishops and al their Clergy teach the people saying the old Law is the rule of obedience but I shal plainly prove the more they bring the people under the obedience of the old Law the more they bring them under the bondage of the divell for S. Pauls zeale was to the old Law when he was a persecutor of the Church of Christ and then I hope you wil al say with me in so doing he was an enemy to God and a friend unto the divel for hee saith plainly Phil. 3. Concerning zeale persecuting the Church touching the righteousnesse that is in the Law blamelesse Thus I have proved to you in brief that S. Pauls zeal was to the old Law when he was a persecutor of Christ It is written Heb. 2. 14. Forasmuch as the children were made partakers of flesh and bloud Christ himselfe took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the divell and so deliver all those who through feare of death were all their life time subject to bondage I have already proved that the old Law is the spirit of bondage and so is the divell which Christ hath redeemed all those people from that will be reconciled unto him and to the obedience of his Word Thus I have plainly proved the Bishops and all their Clergy to be murderers in a spirituall way Againe I have proved them all to be theeves and robbers for by their false doctrine and false power they rob the Church of Christ of those riches honour and glory which belongeth unto it Againe I have proved them all to be abominable hypocrites which alwayes are teaching and preaching that the people must love God and obey his commandements and yet themselves are enemies against God and will not obey his commandements for they will not suffer those things to be done in the Churches which God hath commanded by the divine power of his Word and the plain truth is the Magistrates and Church-Wardens doe yet maintaine and uphold them in their abominable wickednesse I pray God give them all grace to be reconciled to be reconciled to Christ and the obedience of his Word which if they shall wilfully refuse to do they will be sure to draw downe the fiery wrath of God upon their own soules Wherefore I hope if the Magistrates and Church-Wardens shall understand by the powerfull Word of Gods command that God hath raised me up to be a true and sound Preacher of hi● Word I hope you will all have that wisdome to lay down your persecutin● sword Againe I understand the cause why the Bishops all their Clergy an● doctrine is so false and exceeding poore is because they are climbers and come not in by the doore It is written Acts 19. A certaine man named Demetrius a Silver-Smith which made Shrines for Diana brought no small gaine to the craftsmen whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation and said Sirs you know that by this craft we have our wealth This place of Scripture gives a plain and perfect resemblance concerning the Bishops and all their Clergy who by the art and craft of schollership which they have learned in the Vniversity have gathered to themselves such abundance of worldly wealth and earthly magnificence now they begin to call and gather themselves together saying if wee shal suffer the plain English tongue to be Preachers that wil be a means wherby our art of schollership wil be little set by or come to nothing and the plain truth is I have already proved and shall prove again in briefe their doctrine wil be found as just nothing for the Apostle saith plainly so say I 2 Cor. 5. 11. If any man be in Chtist he is a new creature and to be a new creature is to be reconciled to Christ and to the obedience of his Gospel Old things are past away behold all things are become new The old things that are past away signifie the ministration of the old Testament which Christ hath redeemed us from Now we know in all the Churches in England which have been for a long time held under the power and government of the Bishops and their Clergy First they read a lesson in the old Testament and another in the New and when they are up in the Pulpit they joyn in their doctrine the ministration of the old Testament and the New together and in so doing they have blinded and deceived all those people that are as yet held under their power Thus I have proved in brief their doctrine is as just nothing Wherefore now I make no doubt but that Prophecie which is written in Rev. 18. wil be first fulfilled in the Bishops and all their Clergy here in England which saith in one houre so great riches are come to nothing so I hope all those that shall read my book or heare it read so much as may be read in one houre may plainly understand that I have by the help and power of God stripped the Bishops and all their Clergy quite naked even as naked as a new-shorne sheepe that hath nothing to cover her nakednesse but they scorne to learn of me whom God hath raised up to shew them how they might be cloathed with Christ his glorious robe of righteousnesse that the shame of their nakednesse might not appeare Wherefore now I trust in God that saying wil be brought to passe which is written in the eleventh Verse no man buyeth their merchandize any more for all people by degrees shall see and understand that their doctrine is so full of heresie and hypocrisie which is so hatefull in the sight of our glorious God that no man that loves God will buy of their deceiveable doctrine any more Now I come to my text againe Behold a white horse and he that sate on him was called faithfull and true and in righteousnesse he doth judge and make warre I say once againe he that sitteth upon the white horse signifieth Christ and his Ministers which are men of war to fight the spirituall battell of the Lord. It is said in the 14. Verse the armies that followed him I say that shall follow after Christ and his Ministers it is said they were upon white horses we all know in a temporall warre the horsemen are very great in force and power so in like manner all those people that shall follow Christ and his Ministers their force and power will be exceeding great that we need not feare nor doubt but that we shall get the victory for the glorious unity Father Son and Holy Ghost will helpe