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perisheth but for that which endureth to everlasting life which the sonne of man shall give unto you for him hath God the Father sealed Iohn 6.27 i. poured grace into his lips all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge Collof 2.3 and maintained this full unction in its full vigor to be present and equall alwaies alike for quicknesse of understanding and aptnesse to action and to successe of action in all his undertakings which broad seale of Heaven God did put upon Christ with as great delight as this state of worth and so sent him in all fulnesse of endowments and with all fulnesse of content and triumph See all these Isa 42.1 Behold my servant whom I uphold mine elect in whom my soule delighteth I have put my Spirit upon him he shall bring forth judgement to the Centiles Here is Christs Oyle and his fresh Oyle as the Psalmist hath the expression to wit Christs unction and his upholding in this unction to be equall in vigor at all times unto all actions which differenceth his unction from ours for even a gracious heart amongst us is very unequall in his abilities and performances one day strong another day weake one day wise and another day and in another thing a beast and thirdly here is the delight of the father in sealing the sonne with this broad and beautifull seale which is all the glory of his fathers house cast upon him for what more could be done for Christ to make him an effectuall and honourable Saviour And withall you have in this one verse one thing more a pregnant proofe of this seale he shall bring forth judgement to the Gentiles this expression could not possibly follow at this height if Christs seale had not such glorious things in it as I have told you if his unction were not upheld at this height to be equall in his motion unto all undertakings the necessary certainty of his productions would faile or at least be in danger so to doe that one could not with that freedome and boldnesse as here God doth say this of Christ behold he shall doe this and he shall doe that A like place for this great point see Isa 45.13 I have raised him up in righteousnesse and I will direct all his waies here is Christs fresh Oyle and I will direct all his waies we though the people of God and sealed to in our measure yet in many of our waies are left of God unto our selves Christ is in all his waies directed by his father the dew of his youth is alwaies youthfull alwaies under a full sayle of assistance of the Spirit that is upon him and so alwaies equally able to any worke in our behalfe or else this could not follow in the verse at this heighth which it doth he shall build my City and he shall let goe my captives c. A like place to both these as a glorious type of this glorious truth is in Psal 89.20 21 22 23 c. I have found David my servant with my holy Oyle have I anoynted him then observe in the next verse his fresh Oyle and in what height of expression it is expressed With whom my hand shall be established mine arme also shall strengthen him the enemy shall not exact upon him I will beat down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him c. I humbly conceive the glory of Christs unction to be here gloriously shadowed with whom Gods hand was established and by which made to all things invisible as David to some things visible still prosperous and carrying all before him as one and the same at the day of death for vigor and strength unto war as when he first tooke the field Thus sent Christ is able certainly able to blesse which is the next word to be opened Sent him to blesse you c. i. to restore the ruined condition of man Bana which signifies to build is used by way of metaphor in the Old Testament to signifie to blesse to note what properly it is for Christ to blesse man to build up his ruined state 〈◊〉 pull down all old pieces and 〈◊〉 and build up all from the ground new not to leave this worke of pulling down old and rotten remainders til all be down and not ceasing building until all be made new as right and tight as beautifull and glorious as at first and more bigger roomes bigger lights better situation and out-let Elephas supposing Ioh to be like an old house rotten and ruinous outward and inward observe what he saith if thou return to the Almighty thou shalt be built up or blessed thou shalt put away iniquity farre from thy Tabernacle But what blessednesse is is mentioned in the following words namely to have our sinnes pardoned and our hearts changed which doe inseparably goe together and therefore one put to comprehend both as here To turn every one of you from your iniquities The generality of the Jewes conversion is twice spoken of in one chapter Rom. 11.26 And so all Israel shall be saved as it is written There shall come out of Sion a deliverer and shall turn away ungodlinesse from Jacob V. 32. for God hath concluded them a● 〈◊〉 unbeliefe that he might have me●…●…n all O the depth of the riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God c. Of which language the Prophets in the old Testament are full And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them saith the Lord for I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sinne no more Ier. 31.34 And yet this conversion when it shall be accomplished will not be so generall as strictly and individually to involve all for many of the Jewes after these promises are accomplished notwithstanding the glorious testimony God shall then give of his Sonne shal remaine in their unbeliefe and rejection of him as appeares by these Scriptures compared together Dan. 12.1 2. And there shall be a time of troubles such as never was and at that time thy people shall be delivered every one that shall be found written in the book and many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt To which adde V. 10. Many shall be purified and made white and tried but the wicked shall doe wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand The Scripture cals the comming in of the Jewes a resurrection so doth the Prophet here but this resurrection will be but partiall Many of them which sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake and many shall be purified and made white not all but every one that is found written in the book that is the election of God will distinguish and carry it still even then when they shall come in most plenty

AN OLIVE-LEAFE OR A Bud of the Spring VIZ. CHRIST'S RESURRECTION and its end viz. The conversion of Sinners and a Christians compleat Reliefe Opened by NICHOLAS LOCKYER Minister of the Gospell Why seek ye the living among the dead LUKE 24.5 If ye be risen with Christ seek those things which are above COL 3.1 I shall be satisfyed when I awake with thy likenesse PSAL. 17.15 Old things are past away behold all things are become new saith a holy man of our State in Christs resurrection Cyril Tom. 1. de adoratione in spiritu veritate lib. 17. treating upon the First-fruit-offering which he applies to the Resurrection of Christ p. 610. Printed by E.G. for J. Rothwell and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Sun and Fountain in Pauls Church-yard neere the little North gate 1650. To all the Lords people Grace and peace by our Lord Jesus Christ be multiplied T Is my work as a man more as a Christian most of all as a Minister of the Gospell to search out the secrets of the Gospell in their notion and operation Certaine persons were appointed to stand upon Mount Gerizzim and blesse and yet nothing they did this way is mentioned and certaine others appointed to stand upon mount Ebal and curse and what they did this way set down particularly and largely * 〈◊〉 D●… 〈◊〉 12 13 14. Is God more apt to curse then blesse Why Solomon should make all the instruments of the Temple of Gold and mention them particularly to the very hinge and never mention the Arke doth this abide Wood when all the rest Gold or is Wood as splendid and as precious as Gold The Scripture is full of these Secrets as to the notion of truth but O how full of secrets is truth in its operation in our hearts In this latter I am most a Student and yet least a Proficient though I have but little skill in the notion yet farre lesse in the mysterious operation of the Gospell What experiences Christ hath imparted in much love I here present unto you they may be much added unto by heavenly influences proper and peculiar to every Christian Reader and by his owne travels in these waies of wisdome We are called little ones and indeed so we are whilst here little in all things but ignorance and impotence Yet we little ones have great ones waiting upon us and these have more priviledge then we whom they wait upon which is another secret for they alwaies behold the face of our father * Matth. 18 10. which if we could doe too we should in his light see light understand all mysteries and all knowledge all truth in notion and operation which should make us wait for the appearing of Christ and long till this change come that Lords have as much as their servants which attend upon them Blood carries the life and the exquisite spirit and sence of nature with it and yet hath not sence nor feeling it selfe so truly is it with us Ministers we are the Salt of the earth the blood and spirit of the World such as carry exquisite spirit and sense through the mysticall body and yet feele just nothing upon the matter our selves which makes us so short of what we should be in the revelation of the mysteries of the Gospell I speak in this principally of one who hath his births in divine things to much out of due time and due measure yet hath to blesse God that I can condemne my selfe The more Heavenly in our lives the more the best knowledge falls in of it selfe with us Living creatures which lie hid in the earth long for a great part of the yeere together have we say no blood or very little a drop or two about the heart If our souls lie hid in the earth much as these times tempt this way you will have little good blood or spirit in you a drop about your heart to keepe you from Hell hereafter and that will be all not enough to keepe you from many Hels here much lesse will you have so much blood and brave spirit as to search and finde the deep things of God belonging to your peace crowne and glory The wind at one point of the Heavens and at one season of the yeere is called a Husband to all things which spring upon the face of the earth ' tath in it then such a spirit of generation and nutrition Favoni●… à favendo bi● vini●… vocat●● this wind makes all things in this season so smile upon us and this wind blows all the yeer long and is still with us whilst we have our conversation in Heaven Oh how sweetly how generatingly doth that wind which blows where it listeth blow upon us who are in all our waies travelling homeward Severall things you will finde Christians in this book some about Christs resurrection the blooming of this Tree is judged by some to have been in the Spring if at the fall yet then doe some Trees bloome againe I have seen ripe fruit and blossomes together so is alwaies on Jesus Christ that tree of life ripe fruit for any to feed on at any season and yet vigor still Budding and blossoming againe for more This work speaks that miracle repeated a dry rod blooming and bearing Almonds one blossoming at the fall one after many plunges raised to give witnesse and set seale to Christs resurrection You whom I know and much love well understand my often infirmities and so at what after season I blossome and beare and therefore will I hope for rarity sake keep these blossoms and small fruits to admire Christ the orderer of all times and seasons who can make Spring when he will and in what he will Yours in the bowels of Jesus Christ and labours of his everlasting Gospell Nicholas Lockyer To the Reader HIs grace bestowed upon me was not in vain 1 Cor. 15.10 This Scripture Christian Reader makes much impression upon my Spirit The dew of Christs youth falls little upon my heart yet I receive more then I give but little is mine in all yet much if God hath not judged it too much because in vaine A little of the true Treasure is too much to lie dead yet so it doth very much in my heart I wish it may not be so in thine If one had much he might doe much but when little one can doe nothing We are unthrifty to get and then make excuse for an unprofitable life that we have nothing to impart I confesse that to have and to use are two distinct gifts yet plenitudes will constraine vent dropping and leaking and so weare bigger passage by a continued stil power pushing within I am indeed in a straight whether it be grace in vaine for me to be silent or to speake in print to all the world who can speake so little to any purpose to a farre narrower compasse and capacity Let my weaknesse Christian Reader be covered and