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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

false interpreters ever preferre Carnall policies and speak well of them in the vilification of that wisdom which approves of the Crosse of Christ preferring it as the onely thing to be rejoiced in Gal. 6. 14. 3 Whosoever comes in the certainty of truth as it is in Iesus fals interpreters prefer the certainty of Grammer Rules ●ogicall Reasonings Synods and Councills o● men before ●he Evidence and Demonstration of the Spirit and power of God 1 Cor. 2 4 5. 4 Whosoever comes in the authority of conquest and victory of the King subiecting all spirits unto the power of God either voluntarily or else by constraint false interpreters ever prefer the Conquest over mens bodies and subjecting their estates before that placing their chief if not only cause of thank f●lness in the success of the temporal Sword and therefore can never blesse praise nor speak well of the King Christ or of that Anoynting of the Spirit whose weapons of Warfare are not Carnall but Spirituall yea mighty through God to cast down holds Casting down the imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the Knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ and having ready the vengeance against all disobedience when obedence is full and Compleated which it ever was and is in the Lord Christ 2 Cor. 10. 4 5 6. We conclude therefore considering the premisses that it is a most righteous thing in Christ to pronounce this sentence against the spirit of false interpretation in whomsoever it appeares that it shall never bear that Vrim and Thum●im that Light and Perfection so to see the Son of God as to install into the office of the Priest who enters into the Holy of Holies and therefore shall never be authorised to blesse or speak well of such as come or spring up by the power of the Spirit in the Name and authority of the Lord that King of Saints and Holy one of God separated marvellously and exempted by signes of honour from all common and profane use to the exercise of holinesse and manifestation of Gods vertues for ever 1 Pet. 2. 9. whom the Spirit of false interpretation doth ever vilific preferring the Kings of the Nations round about Ierusalem that is above who are appointed onely to profane and common uses before that holy one of God Iohn 19 12 13 14 15. Acts 17. 6 7. therefore let that house be desolate and that spirit of false interpretation let it be for ever ashamed Amen So be it FINIS Certain Copies of Letters which passed betwixt the Penman of this Treatise and certain men newly come out of Old England into New Who when they were arrived at Boston in the Massachusets-Bay the Governour being informed they were such as are called Quakers he sent Officers to fetch them ashoar and being forthwith brought into examination what their business was into these parts they answered To spread the Gospel and to do the worke of the Lord whereupon they were all committed to prison both Men and Women there to remain● till the return of the Ship and then to be carried back into England the Master being bound in 500l with others for security with him to set them ashoar in England againe and that upon his own cost and charge les● the purity of the Religion professed in the Churches of New-England should be defiled with Errour Warwick Septemb. 16. 1656. The Superscription To the Strangers and out-casts with respect to carnall Israel now in prison at Boston for the name of Christ these with trust present in Massachusets New-England Christian Friends THE report of your demeanour with some others of the same mind with you formerly put in possession of the place of your present aboad as is reported to us as also the errand you professe you come with into these parts hath much taken my heart so that I cannot with hold my hand from expressing its desires after you which present habitation of yours our selves have had a proof of from like grounds and reasons that have possessed you thereof under which in some measure we still remain in point of banishment under pain of death out of these parts a prohibition from that liberty which ●o Christian ought to be infringed of And though we have a larger room in bodily respects than for present your selves have yet we desire to see the prison doors open before we attempt to go out either by force or stealth or by intr●a●y which we doubt not but the bo●s will fly back in the best season both in regard of your selves and us but we apprize more of the appearance of an evident hand of God exalting himself in his own way than we do of our bodily livelyhood for we fear not the face of man for God hath shewed us what all flesh is otherwise we would visit you in the place where you remain though we came unto you on our bare feet or any that professeth the Lord Iesus opposing his authori y against all the powers of darknesse If God have brought you into these parts as instruments to open the excellencies of the Tabernacle wherever the Cloud causeth you to abide no doubt but this your imprisonment shall be an effectual preface to your work to bring the Gain-sayers to nought which my soul waits for not with respect to any particular mans person but with respect unto that universall spirit of wickednesse gone out into the world to deceive and tyrannize and in that respect my soul saith O Lord I have waited for thy salvation the bringing to nought of which spirit is ever made manifest in the blessing of the Tribes for the Scepter of Israel is never erected but in bringing to nought the Crown of pride which Dan or true judgement ever brings to nought by our spirituall Sampson I may not presume to use a word of exhortation unto you being I had rather as having more need to be admonished by you not doubting but you are plentifully enabled to admonish one another let me make bold to say thus much to my self Stand still and behold the salvation of the Lord we are Persons lie here as buried unto the Sons of men in a corner of the Earth grudged at that we have this present burying place But our God may please to send some of his Saints unto us to speak words which the dead hearing them shall live I may not trouble you further at this time ouely if we knew that you had a mind to stay in these parts after your inlargement for we hear you are to be sent back for England and what time the Ship would set Saile or could have hope the Master would deliver you we would endeavonr to have a V●ssell in readinesse when the Ship goeth out of Harbour to take you in and set you where you may enjoy your liberty I● arvell what manner of God your Adversaries trust in who is so fearfull of being infected with errour or how they

reallity of goodness in it and that was never found but only in that device and workmanship of Christ who is the ingraven form of Gods subsistauce and that which gives being to all things without whom they are not never were nor shall be For the wisdome of God is the original and fountain of all things as maker and former of them all but the wisdome of God doth properly consist in that device of the creature and creatour being made one in Christ without which Gods wisdome could never appear for he cannot be known but by his own light Psalme 36 9. ther efore the unity of God and man in that faith of Christ is the proper original fountain and cause of all things and hath all things in it wherein the reallity of goodness doth consist and all other things are but as the hand upon the dyal which points at time which it self is not so do all other things in heaven and earth point at an eternal state and condition which not any nor all of themselves either are or ever shall be So that he that brings out an original goodness or righteousness in angel or man and not out of this fountain of God and man being one in Christ he is a false interpreter of the word of God and the doctrine of such is that which is and ever was the proper inlet of sin and wrath upon the sons of Adam for being they raise righteousness and goodness from a false fountain they bring in the devils to be the state of Christ as all Idolaters have ever don from the beginning and such is the falshood of the fountain out of which their doctrine springs and therefore it is that the consultations of the serpent who is said to be wiser then any beast which the Lord God made proves the very devil and Satan Revel 20 2. himself Secondly false interpreters terminate the word of God in a false and counterfeit center in that they carry the intent and scope thereof to other things besides Christ that is God and man in unity such are they who center the word of God in good angels which they confess are not in this unity also in man in his first creation which they exclude from this unity of such mistake is the centring of the word of God as being the intent thereof in offices and ordinances called divine and civil which have not the nature and also the duration of this unity in them for Christ is the first and the last the beginning and the end the proper rise and termination of all things therefore he is said to be the Lord our Lawgiver and also the end of the law Revel 22. 13 Isaiah 33. 22. Roman 10. 4. Therefore it is no law of God in what relation soever considered that terminates or ends in any thing short of or besides Christ yet do we not deny the lawful use of any humane ordinances no more then we deny the ordinance of the Sun and of the moon So they be used as becomes the nature of them in their time and season which are all found to be in the judgement of God no better then empty husks such as the prodigal fed upon being destitute of this unity which is in Christ Luke 15. 16 17. so that further then they direct us unto Christ they are no bread becoming our fathers house and so will appear when ever we come to our selves by getting out of that way of prodigallity but if we terminate the law of God in them they all become Idolatrous which have proved the snares and Idols of the world unto this day whilst counterfeit and hypocritical interpreters present wood and stone and foolish pictures unto us that we may bend oll our zeal only against such trash that in the mean time Satan and his ministers may raign as angels of light 2 Cor. 11. 13 14 15. And thus much briefly for present in the describing of a false interpreter of the word of God Now that we may the better understand their just desert of so many woes pronounced against them in this chapter let us take a short sum and view of the particular ground and cause of the pronunciation of every wo as they lie in order before we come to this which we have read The ground of the first wo is laid down in the 13. verse and contains three things 1. First that they shut up the kingdome of heaven against men 2. That they will not enter thereinto themselves 3. That they will not suffer them that are entring 1. They shut up the kingdome of heaven against men that is you draw a vale over the holy and eternal things of the Son of God by terminating the word of God in temporary and terrene things that is when men so expound the law of God as to make things which indure not for ever to be the intent and purpose of the word of God as titles offices relations and operations that shall end by their own confession when God is all in all but for the present the word hath its proper center in them this is a vail drawn over those orders institutions relations and operations proper to the house and kingdome of God as a door shut and fast bolted that men enter not which is made up and consists of the proper workmanship of mans natural heart which hath ever appeared a glory in mans eye to the darkening and hiding of that glory of the Son o● God therefore it is said that the ministration of condemnation is glorious glory is to be done away otherwise the vail is upon the heart of man to shut him out of the holy place that is our of that state of Christ Jesus when Moses is read unto this day 2 Cor. 3 so that the centring of the word of God in an earthly glory which must be don away is the ministry of condemnation which shuts up the way of salvation which is by Christ Luke therefore expresseth it in these words Ye have taken away the key of knowledge Luke 11. 52. that is ye have hid and covered by your earthly ties and relation the spirit of the Scriptures which as a key passeth through all those wards and bolts of humane relations and respects loosening and and dissolving them all as things of no value for the free passage of the Saints of God into a kingdome which fades not in any of its relations and respects but lasts for ever 1 Pet. 1. 4. 1 Pet. 5. 4. Or it causeth the wisdome of the flesh that great bar which bolts up the kingdome of God so to fall and fly back as ●he bolt of a lock when the wards are opened of which Christ saith get thee behind me Satan that the Saints of God may enter into the exercise of the wisdome and knowledge of God in which Luke makes the kingdome of God to consist saying Ye have taken away the key of knowledge and enter not into it that is into

that knowledge of which Christ speakes when he saith And this is life eternal that they know 〈◊〉 to be the only true God in Iesus Christ whom thou hast s●at John 17. 3. 2. 〈◊〉 ●●d point in the cause of this wo they will not enter in themselves that is they will not pass through temporary and transient relations and operations to give the word of God its proper subject and intent to consist only in things that concern the kingdome of Christ which is not of this world Iohn 18. 36. but lodge themselves in carnal and sensual institutions and respects and will not enter into that knowledge or acknowledgment of that ministry of the Spirit 2 Cor. 3. 6. which saith henceforth we know no man or as the word is nothing after the flesh though we have known Christ Jesus after the flesh henceforth we know him no more 2 Cor. 5. 16. that is to say we acknowledge no temporary or transient institution or relation to be any part or parcel of Christ or Christianity no not in the most fined form that man can possibly mint or cast it into for if it should then would Christ sustain loss in the cessation thereof which is impossible the Son of God should do in his own body for then were he not one that saves to the utter most which the Apostle affirms he doth Heb. 7. 25. Therefore the scribes pharises and elderships of the world they enter not into the kingdome of God not having the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ which is evident in all their ordinations and institutions wherein they terminate the holy word of God and that by denying the proper center and object thereof for they may as well deny the Son of God to be the only sountain from whence the word flows as to deny him to be the only intent and subject matter unto which it goeth and in which and not else it terminates it self and there is a like denial of the truth of the word of God in the one as in the other Wo therefore unto all dissemblers of the word of God in this point who do avowedly not only shnt the kingdom of God against others but also voluntarily refuse to enter in themselves 3. The third point is that they will not suffer others that are entring to go in or as Luke hath it such as are entring ye forbid or as the word imports such as are entred ye forbid 1. That is ye deny and forbid any such way of entrance into the kingdome of God as disanuls and unbolts all temporary institutions and humane and carnal traditions without which your kingdome retains not its proper Spirit not can it otherwise maintain and preserve it self being properly the kingdome of this world 2. Secondly you suffer not them that are entring or entred that is such as are entred into that way of Christ according to that law of the Spirit of an eternal life you suffer them not to express and walk by the rules of that kingdome you suffer them not to institute such laws to authorize such officers to exercise such power as is sutable to that spiritual kingdome and eternal Son of God neither can you suffer them to reside and abide amongst you no if it were in your power not to have a place of abode upon the face of the earth the cause of the first wo therefore is apparent and evident in that it is the life of the innocent Son of God which we hunt after and seek for Luke 22. 2. Iohn 5. 16. 18. Matth. 2. 20. in all his Saints who have ever appeared in the world as the hinds of the morning hunted and pursued to be wurryed by wicked Jews scribes pharises and elders who stand strictly upon laws constituted by the letter and historicall narration of the Scriptures As also by profane gentiles who take a certain lycentious liberty unto themselves as though no command of God were come forth upon the face of the earth or religion to be exercised amongst the sons of men who live as without God in the world Psalme 22. see the title and also the whole Psalm Eyhes 2. 12. The cause of Christs denouncing of the second wo is expressed in the 14. verse in these words For ye devour widows houses under a colour of long praying wherein observe these particulars for the opening of it 1. First what the state of a widow is 2. What is the widows house 3. What is meant by this colour or pretence of long praying 4. How the widows house is devoured by this means of praying For the first the state of widowhood doth consist in these particulars First she is one who hath lost and is void of headship and authority therefore the Apostle saith the man is the head of the woman 1 Cor. 11. 3. Secondly a widow is desolate and void of a protectour for the man is the defence of the woman in all suits that come against her or challenge that can be made of her and therefore Abimelech saith unto Sarah concerning Abraham her husband Behold he is unto thee a couering of the eyes Gen. 20. 16. that is a defence unto thee whereever thou comest therefore Sarah is said to obey him and calls him lord 1 Pet. 3. 6. Thirdly a widow is destitute of one to provide for her therefore the Apostle stating it upon the man saith that if any provide not for his own especially for those of his house he hath denyed the faith and is worse then an infidel 1 Tim. 5 8. Fourthly a widow is destitute and void of an instructer and teacher for the Apostle gives that honour unto the man saying of the women If they will learn any thing let them ask their husbands at home 1 Cor. 14. 35. Fifthly a widow is destitute of means to multiply and increase the family therefore as she is a wife she is said to be as a fruitful vine upon the sides o● the mans house Psalm 128. 3. without which he is ●aid to dwell in solitariness Psalm 68 6. 2. The second point is what the widows house is now the widows house is properly and only that place where God is Judge of her condition that is where he is Judge by righting her in all wrongs offered unto her as also in discerning of all her wants and necessities for the supply of them and that the Prophet affirms God is unto her only in his holy habitation which is the proper place of his own real abode Psalme 68. 5. 3. The third point is what is meant by the pretence and colour of long praying or continued and extended praying that is when men interpret the word of God so as to draw out prayer or prophesie to be a continued act or exercise trade and calling of some particular men wherein they are bound to exercise themselves in the behalf of others more then the rest of the people of God be who as they say are to be exercised in other imployments