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A41575	An antidote against the common plague of the world, or, An answer to a small treatise (as in water, face answereth to face) intituled Saltmarsh returned from the dead and by transplacing the letters of his name, this is Smartlash : ascend into the throne of equity, for the arraignment of false interpretours of the word of God : summoned out of all ages to appear, under the penalty of death, challenging the consent, or forbidding to gainsay the common approved priesthood of this age.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1305; ESTC R24349	253,337	351

more he imbraceth and approveth the wisdome of God the more he rejects and disallows the wisdome of the serpent 2. Cor. 11. 3. All Humane institutions reformations outward ordinances and bodily exercises practised as the scope and proper intent of the mind of God and so to conform our selves to God thereby come under this censure of the Son of God as a woful and hypocritical cleansing 2. In the second place therefore is brought in the manner of their cleansing and that is the outside things temporary and perspicuous to humane reason and to common or profane understanding therefore our Apostle saith that we look not upon things which are seen but on things which are not seen for the things that are seen are temporary but the things which are not seen are eternal 3. The third point is what they cleanse and that is the cup and platter by cup or viol in Scripture is understood a full draught or portion of any thing either joyous or sorrowful either a full measure of blessing or of the curse Psalme 16. 5. Psalme 11. 6. Psalme 23. 5. Psalme 75. 8. for the word of God is that cup of salvation Psalme 116. 13. containing the fulness of Gods bounty and liberal distributions unto his people And it is that cup of the curse filled with the dregs of that red wine of Gods displeasure which all the wicked of the earth shall suck and wring them out Psalme 75. 8. Therefore the Hebrew word Mizrak and the Greek Phialee hath the name of pouring out as in abundance so often used by the Apostle in Revel the 16. in pouring out the cups or viols of Gods wrath Again the word platter or charger in Hebrew Keghnarah and sometimes Cappoth signifies hollowness as the hollow of the hand or of a spoon as having a capacity to contain matter to be ministred for food and the Greek word Trublion used also by Christ Matthew 26. 23. Intimating it to be of such capacity that divers hands may be upon it not only Christ to dip therein but also Judas the one exercised in the food of eternal life the Spirit of God in prophesie signifying aforehand what Judas should do unto him the other receiving a sop of eternal death in which Satan makes entire who never rests till through dissimulation he hath betrayed the Lord Jesus to his own distruction In which platter dish or continent of the word of God the hands of all men are either in reception of the food of eternal life whereby they are strengthened and fitted for the work of the Lord or else they receive that bitter water of the curse to make them to swell and burst with Judas so as in him all hypocritical and dissembling confessours are made known Iohn 6 51. Numb 5. 27. Acts 1. 18 19. who seek only to purifie and cleanse according to the visible and outward form of expressions in the word of God but never look into that hidden mystry of that spiritual state and body of Christ which is the proper scope and intent of them all 1 Cor. 2. 7. 1 Pet. 3. 4. Revel 2. 17. 4. The fourth point is the manifestation of the inside of this manner of cleansing and that is fulness of bribery and excess 1. For they are full of bribery or extortion this word is of double signification for it declares how false interpretours come to God in all their indeavours as directed unto him and that is with a spirit of bribery for in all their prayers fasts thanksgivings sacraments and services their proper indeavour is to corrupt the Lord even the God of Justice and all purity in putting their services into his hand to divert him from judging according to the law of the Spirit which they call heresie Acts 24. 14 and to draw him to judge of things according to the law of the flesh in which their proper cause depends and doth consist And hence it is that Balak and Balaam indeavoured what in them lay by gifts sacrifices services and southsaying to curse that spirituall state and camp of Israel and to make it abominable and themselves acceptable before the Lord read Numbers 22. and 23. chapters And thus they are full of bribes inwardly in that they give them with desire to prevaricate the law of the Spirit to establish the law of the flesh which desires and wisdome of the flesh are enmity against God because they are not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be Rom. 8. 7. Again these men are also full of the receiving of bribes for they do nothing but out of hope and gain and receiving reward as they are related both to God and man and therefore such Balaamites are said to have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of that son of Bossor who loved the wages of unrighteousness 2 Pet. 2. 15. whereas the people of God perform their works not looking for any thing again which distinguisheth them from the mercinary sinners and wicked of the world by Christ his own testimony Luke 6 34 35 36. Yea the Saints act in all things as in that proper sphere or element wherein their natural life consisteth as they are of that fountain of Israel Psalme 68. 26. and that off-spring Royal being the sons of God 3 Iohn 1. 12 13. To whom it is as natural to be exercised in wayes of worship and works of mercy as for a father to lay up for his children or the Sun to shine in the firmament without looking for any thing to be brought in thereby and added unto it self For the Saints of God move to declare what they are through grace in Christ and not to make themselves to be something which as yet they are not 2 Cor. 12. 14 15. Psalme 19. 4 5 6. 1 Cor. 15. 10. for that according to which they reckon and account of themselves is of God and not of man Galat. 1. 11. 2. Again as the word bribe imports extortion that filthiness also is in these interpretours in all their outgoings under pretence of being sent out from God for so they assume the names titles attributes and offices proper to the Lord Christ as Bishop Pastour Teacher Priest Prophet King Lord Ruler and the like which they extort violently pull from and rob the Lord Christ of who never gave nor appointed those terms titles and offices to any that serves in the earthly tabernacles or rule according to the carnal commandment and transitory office and imployment so that they are full of extortion and robbery also for never was the name of any thing given by God but the nature of the thing was found under it else should it be a vain title and if the name of God be given to any where his nature and spirit is not under it there is found nothing but a vain Idol or thing of nought what show or comportment soever it may seem to bear in the eye of the world Lastly these interpretours

the wealth priviledge and state of the Son of God that he can withhold or keep back from him by whom he is taught in any thing according to the nature truth and verity of the Kingdom of God but freely yields all unto him that teacheth which himself hath learned and is blessed withall because he cannot part those goods wherewith he himself is inriched And shall we think that a Christian which cannot withhold any of those blessed priviledges proper to the Son of God from his brother but freely communicates them all with him Shall that heart so a price of any private interest as to withhold it from his brother in the season thereof shall he freely communicate in the greater and not in the less shall he communicate in thy crown and not in thy grinding at the mill verily that base ignorance of your Sonship unto God through a carnali ministry is the proper ground of all such suspition as also the onely cause of such hugging of private interests and preserving them as such treasures uuto our selves Again we see that the law of God is said here to be the law of Moses so that God honours his people as being the Authors of his law through that unity that is between God and man in the faith of Christ as though man were the proper contriver of the law of God and the giver out and Original of the word of eternity therefore our Apostle is bo●d with respect to the rest of the Apostles and holy men of God to call it our gospel where it is said if our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost and again our gospel came not unto you in word onely but in power and in the holy ghost and in much assurance And again in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel and again now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the mistery which was kept secret since the world began and again Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised up from the dead according to my gospel and again our word toward you was not yea and nay and again if any man obey not our word by this epistle note that man and have no company with him that he may be ashamed Yea it is indifferently expressed in Scripture through this unity of faith to be the law of the Lord or of his servant Moses and from this ground it is said the people feared the Lord and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses for so the words are truly rendred We conclude then that Gods Saints are honoured as being Authour of that namely his word or law which is the framer maker and conservatour of all things it is written or recorded in Moses law and here the record is an inlet unto a further argument to declare the truth of a spiritual and saving ministry the record is this Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn By treading out the corn we are to understand both the manuring of the ground in the fitting of it for the sowing of the seed and the casting of the seed into the earth and also the treading of the corn out by the feet of the ox or turning the wheel upon it to manifest the increase as the words following do declare In the sowing of the seed he is not to have his mouth tied up or any means used to terrifie him or any way to prevent him from eating of the same seed that is sown and therefore it is contrary to the law to feed him with any other grain or kinds of meat in the time of his labour onely that which sown by his labour is the proper and only food appointed for him by the law to eat For as he subdues the ground so as it brings not forth its natural ornaments so he is to feed on the seed sown which is to take root downwards therein and bring forth fruit upwards of another kind then otherwise it would naturally have brought forth Now the gospel of the Kingdom or ministry of the word of God doth not plow up the fallow ground of the heart to subdue mens outward estates but only the weeds of corruption which spring up from that law of sin and death neither is their outward things its refreshment in so doing no more then the ox is to feed of any other food but that which is sown in his labour even so the word of life and immortality the same word which we distribute and cause to fall as Manna among Israels tents that is the same which a true labourer in Gods husbandry ever feeds upon and it is his proper livelyhood to be exercised therein and shall a man be hired to feed himself it is natural and delightful for all other creatures so to do and shall the man of God become so mercinary as to be hired to do it what a shame is this Judas Iscariot-like spirit unto the gospel of God those sluggards of the world that refuse to put their hand to their mouth to feed on that which they would have the world to believe is their only food and livelyhood but as others lift it up by outward estates and giving them honour together therewith But there is no doctrine which the man of God teacheth to any man of what place office rank or degree soever he is but himself is concerned in it so as he feeds upon it either as it is the breaking of the head of Leviathan which became meat for the people in the wildernesse and so he feeds on his deliverance therefrom or else he is invested into the same thing which he teacheth and so it becomes his food and one real substance with him and to fall short of this is to carnally the seed of life the word of the Kingdom bounding it to persons places and times which is to have the word of God in respect of persons but the man of God finds sufficient food in whatsoever he soweth or laboureth in and cannot himself live without it in the distribution thereof for multiplication and increase and a good husband man needs no hire to sow his own field Vers 10. Doth God take care for oxen or saith he it for our sakes only for our sakes no doubt In these words is a two fold interrogation and an effectuall answer the first part of the interrogation hath in it a strong negation in these words doth God take care for oxen that is to say it is not oxen whom this care doth concern or the speech intends The second part contains a forceable affirmation or saith he it for our sakes onely that is the ministers of Christ are they which it only intendeth and the answer takes away all scruples or question either in the negation or affirmation in these words for our sakes no

is a wicked and disallowed ministry rejected and reprobated by God and doth in his heart conclude that the righteousness of Christ is one thing to one Saint and another thing in another Saint that it is of one virtue in one age of the world and of another virtue more or less or some alteration in another age this is reprobate doctrine rejected and reproved by God For our Apostle saith I beat down my body not the body of another So that they who seem to beat down sin in another and know not how to make it their own as it being naturally in that body whereof they by nature are such are in this ministry of reprobation therefore all such as go about to cry down a sin which was committed in a body destitute of humane nature that is the sin of angels before man was or at the least before man sinned these beat down sin in another not in their own body a sin say they which man was never guilty of nor subject unto for say they man sinned by means of a tempter but the evil angels the devils they sinned without a tempter these men preach in another not in themselves and these our Apostle by transferring the thing to himself concludes by the Spirit of God that it is a reprobate and rejected ministry disallowed of God in all good men throughout all ages They therefore that preach a sin without that body whereof man by nature is which are all those which preach the fall of angels not to be the proper fall of man and the sin of the devil in its first act not to be the proper sin of man as well as of Satan all these are reprobate ministers and this their ministry is reproved rejected and disallowed of God Again they who preach a righteousness a wisdome a sanctification or redemption that is in another but not in themselves or that which is not in all the Saints of God as really as they in it or as really in all as in any one these preach in another but not in themselves they build up or seem to do another not their own these are reprobate ministers such as are rejected and disallowed of God And wherewithall shall these men come before the Lord and bow themselves before the high God shall they come before him with burnt-offerings with calves of a year old will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousands of rivers of oyl shall they give their first-born for their transgression or the fruit of their body for the sin of their soul But thou O man of God who art known of him he shall shew unto thee what is good yea what that good thing is which is only acceptable unto him and what doth he require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to abase thy self in point of all humane excellencies that so thou may walk in the power and glory of thy God Amen S. G. The Preface THe piece presented according to the nature of it is as a judge of assize riding his circuit who being set on the seat of judgement is as a man ignorant of all causes apertaining to that place where he is so set as also impartial with respect to any mans person for he knows no man But when the cause is produced the parties brought in and examined with observation of their countenance carriage and demeanure together with manner of speech and all circumstances The witnesses standing up being such as are free from the act as also from passing of sentence and yet have really communicated in the act by eye or ear or some of the sences in way of approbation or dislike The voluntary declaring their testimony without any extraction obstruction interruption or mollestation and it recorded The case opened declared and made manifest The records of the law read seriously considered and skilfully interpreted The Auditours satisfied in the conviction of the guilty and clearing of the innocent And the spirit of the judge animated through sound and indubicable knowledge of the matter and conscience of his office freely determineth in case of right and wrong passeth sentence of absolution or condemnation without either fear or flattery and such manner of progress expect in this presented and so I adventure it to publick view as a thing impartiall having sufficient in it self for its own defence S. G. Matth. the 23. 29. Wo unto you scribes and pharises hypocrites c. THis is the seventh wo denounced by Christ in this chapter against scribes and pharises being hypocrites and once being blind guides to lay open the fearfnl estate and condition of such as oppose Christ Jesus in his doctrine and seek by all means to insnare and intangle him therein to make him appear unto men as a guilty person that so all men might contemn and dispise his sayings as is plentifully declared in the former chapter which is not to be limited or confined to any particular time or age of the world as excluding others nor to any particular rank or calling of men as belonging to them and not to others But is to be taken according to the true etymology of the phrases which are here expressed The word scribe signifies an expounder of the law and so the Evangelist Luke hath it saying wo be to you expounders of the law that is ye reporters of or bringers in the original and first foundation of the law and records of the kingdome The word pharise signifies one who curiously divides makes distinctions in the interpretation or prophesie foretelling what will insue and come to pass upon the principles and foundations premised which are never separated and therefore Luke concludes them in one Luke 11. 52. saying Wo be to you lawyers or wo be to you interpreters of the law The word hypocrite or dissembler is therefore added to declare that they give a false exposition and interpretation of the law of God both in the ground and original of things as also in all the success and prosecutions thereof otherwise the words scribes and pharises might be taken in a good sense 1. The word hypocrite properly signifies a stage-player which sort of men we know are counterfeits in divers respects first they counterfeit the persons of men representing godly or noble men when they are of no such disposition nor degree so do false interpreters represent the person of Christ yet cannot but confess he is as far remote as heaven is from earth 2. The stage-players counterfeit the records and histories of a kingdome as though they were now in their wise and grave agitation and solemnization when as they cannot but confess there is nothing but a bare resemblance of them and so do false interpreters they treat of the records and histories of the Scripture when as they confess they were in act long ago and are not now in present and real existance 3. The stage-players counterfeit time pretending the season of Gods providence

and victory Heb. 2. 10. Heb. 3. 1. and is here personated in Zachariah as our high Priest and Reconciler unto God by his office and ministry as he is personated in Abel as the only acceptable gift and off-spring which twain are never out of relation but ever in conjunction as here brought in together for no man can prove his office to minister before the Lord further than he can prove himself the acceptable Sacrifice offered up unto the Lord therefore Christ brings in himself here under the name of Zachariah to note the nature and fulnesse of his office which these false Interpreters reject describing himself by this name as well as by the name Abel it signifying the mind of the Lord or the full mind of the Lord or a man of the Lord to declare that as he is emptied of all humane excellencies proper to the mind of man so he is furn shed with the fulnesse of the mind of God for none knows the father but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him Mat. 11. 27 who minds only the glory and cause of the Lord and so according to this name he is described to be mindfull of the Lord or the full and compleat mind of the Lord signifying from whom he came as he is the fulnesse of Gods mind and what his errand is namely to be mindfull of Gods cause only Again it signifies a man of the Lord to declare that a Christian is of no humane investment into office nor acts by any humane authority but hath his instalment and authority to exercise from the Lord of all the Earth and thus Christ is declared by this name Zachariah as one who is of the mind and counsell of God in the exercise of the Priests office whom these hypocrites reject to the letting out and spilling the very soul and life thereof by their traditions Mat. 15. 3. 6. Again he is here set forth by an ancestour as being the son of Barachiah in which the mystery of this Scripture is declared and signified unto us for this Zachariah was the son of Jehoida the high Priest of God in the dayes of wicked Ioash though it is said that he did uprightly in the sight of the Lord in the dayes of Jehoida the high Priest 2 Chron. 24. namely that wicked Ioash being that what he did in the time of Iehoida all his Actions as the History declares ●ise from the counsell and operations of the high Priest which are reckoned upon Joash in like sort as the choise of Christ is reckoned upon Iudas together with the rest of the Disciples and as Iudas is said to have part in that ministry which was the proper portion of the rest of the Disciples out of which he is excluded in point of any fruit or benefit thereby but departed therefrom by going to his own place Iohn 6. 70. Acts 1. 17. 25. so that his actions are said to be upright namely the ordering of the Kingdome as it had respect to Iehoiada in his dayes who was the proper Agent in the affais of the Kingdom as well as of the Priesthood in his dayes therefore Zachariah hath not the name of his Father Iehoiada by that name the son of Iehoiada but by the name of Barachiah being related here unto his Ancester by vertue of that Kingly Priesthood which his Father sustained signified closely unto us under the name Barachiah which signifies the blessing of the Lord which is the Priests office to blesse in the name of the Lord Numb 6. 23. 24. 25. 26. Deut. 10. 8. 1 Chron. 23. 13. for ever So that he is related to his Father as the proper off-spring of that Princely office which comprehends the vertue and power both of Kingdom and Priesthood whom these false Interpreters are said to slay for Iehoiada the Priest was the proper Ruler of the Kingdom in his dayes in the time of wicked Ioa● and therefore Joash is said to do that which was upright in the days of Iehoiada because Iehoiada was the originall and fountain of the work as was noted above for he submitted unto the high Priest in all things and therefore Iehoiada is buried in the Sepulchre of the Kings which was denyed to Ioash at his death 2 Chron. 24. Jehoiada was privy to his being hid and maintained in the house of the Lord for the space of six years as a perfect escape from the hands of wicked Athalia and cessation from her Idolatry in the time of the high Priest 2 Kings 11. And in the seventh year Iehoida brings a most Princely guard into the house of the Lord for his defence the high Priest lets the Crown upon his head and causeth Athalia to be slain he makes a Covenant between the Lord and Ioash and also between him and the People he gives the King his Wives as being the proper Author of all relations in the Kingdom and is the prime provoker and stirrer up of the Levites and all the people unto the repair of the house of the Lord who otherwise moved not at the voice of the King therefore Zachariah is related unto his Ancester as being the Off-spring Son and Heir to such a noble office by the name of Barachiah blessing and speaking well of the Lord or bowing the knee unto the Lord as being subject to none but he no not to Ioash further than he follows his counsell and advise and therefore when Ioash fals away to Idolatry Zachariah stands up above the People that is as a man of God in the name and authority of God as one above that idolatrous Nation higher than the Princes or People thereof now falne unto Idolatry and feares not to tell them how they have transgressed the Commandements of the Lord and therefore cannot prosper nor passe through their design but as they have forsaken the Lord and departed from the wayes of Iehoiada that is from the knowledge of the Lord as his name signifies so the Lord had forsaken them declaring thereby that as then Iehoiada the high Priest was dead in that time of their Idol worship so wherever there are carnall Ordinances and Institutions set up that men must submit unto there is the Lord Iesus dead the high Priest of our profession in point of all spirituall and holy administrations both in Kingly and Priestly office which includes all other offices whatsoever as they were then dead in Iehoiada in order to Ioash and his Nobles who as his name signifies disagreeing or fiery so he now manifests himself against the godly and propheticall off-spring of the high Priest in Zachariah for he clothing himself with obeisance counsell and honour of his wicked Princes fals to Idolatry in which act of his Iehoiada is dead our high Priest in all spirituall respects Iehoiada is dead also in his son Zachariah in point of all carnall administrations both in Kingdom and Priesthood who is clothed as the Text saith with the Spirit of God and therefore declares