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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45520	What is truth. Or, the patern in the mount Wherein many places of scripture are (in pursuit of truth, and the churches peace) explained. Therein, most false opinions and heresies (both modern and ancient) are clearly detected and refelled. By Tho. Harby.; What is truth.	Harby, Thomas.	1671 (1671)	Wing H686; ESTC R216529	205,140	354

were sealed I answer Their Title teacheth us the causes of their being so called They are called The first-fruits it seems because they are to be the first after the grand Apostacy that shall bring forth fruits of more visible and conspicuous Obedience to God and good Works to Men And the 144000 in the 7th Chapter to the 9th vers the Church sealed were for different or contrary causes not called The first-fruits To wit Because they during the time of the grand Apostacy ' did not bring forth fruits of such visible obedience to God nor good works so apparent to Men For such as the Tree is such is the Fruit but that Numerus sigillatus was the sealed Church And such must her fruits be sealed works of necessity For a Book or Letter sealed is scarce at all legible And such is the love and works of that sealed Church There 's little exemplariness in her practice for others to follow Her works so weak are they so over-grown with Weeds of evil Manners are scarce at all manifest But the fruits of these first-fruits cannot but be manifest must of necessity be signally manifest because they shall have the Name of God written in their foreheads And their works wrought in a quadruplex conformity after the Pattern of the good Samaritan their grand Exemplar shall be that Name of God written in their foreheads exemplary and legible to all Ages and Nations I do not absolutely state the Epoche of the sealed Church at the Commencement of the 1000 years about the beginning of the reign of Constantius the first For they are said to come out of great tribulations which is more truly intended of their Conscript Antitype vers 14. Howbeit They did then begin to come out of those tribulations when the first Dragon began to fall Therefore Their Epoche of being sealed might seem to begin then But if they begun to be sealed as 't is likely they might at the beginning of the fall of the first Dragon Then they were at first that Woman in Heaven clothed with the Sun c. Ch. 12.1 And the same Church that triumphed over that false-accusing first Dragon in these words Now is come salvation and strength and the Kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ For the accuser of our brethren is scast down vers 10. From that time her Graces decayed till after 400 when she fell from Heaven and fled into the wilderness vers 1 6 14. After that time she retained a great part though ftill decaying of her Primitive integrity for above 800 years Then her Graces grew still weaker till they were almost wasted and near quite spent For Abraham put Bread and a bottle of Water upon Hagars shoulder and sent her away with her son She wandered in the Wilderness till the water was spent and the Child ready to perish for whom she lifted up her voice and wept But God opened her eyes to see a Well of Water and she gave the Lad drink and he revived So the Righteousness and Graces of the sealed Church are like Hagars bottle of Water She also hath wandered in the Wilderness above 1200 years till her bottle is almost spent Well may her Children and she both ready to perish sit down and weep But the Name of God written in her and their foreheads shall be a Fountain of living Waters to revive both her and them For it is not an empty crackling of Thorns in a formal profession nor the vain blaze of foolish Virgins half-performances nor litigious contradiction nor bold confidence in blind obedience nor the stony-grounds shallow superficies of found Doctrine and practice like it nor Lo here nor Lo there nor the Witnesses weak and that also now expiting Sackcloth-Prophesie that can support the Gospel-Church whiles she herself is shivered into Schisms and Subdivisions brought to the brink of the Grave and her Righteousness that should sustain her almost spent Wherefore A necessity a necessity urgent and indispensible even comples the Gospel-Church and all Ministers and Magistrates to ask of God to open their eyes that they may see the life-redeeming River of apparent Righteousness and do as Hagar and her son did Drink and not dye That is That they may find what that sacred Name of God in the foreheads of his servants shall be and seek to have it fairly transcribed in their own that so they may be a part of those first-fruits redeemed from the Earth vers 3 4. We must therefore give all diligence to make this sacred Name of God sure to our selves to know what that life-redeeming Righteousness is and how to work it But how shall we know how to work it without a pattern A pattern a perfect Patern is and hath been long wanting upon Earth where then shall we find it We must seek the Patern in the Mount And I looked and lo a Lamb stood upon Mount Sion and with him an hundred forty and four thousand having his Fathers Name written in their fore-heads Chap. 14.1 There 's the pattern in the Mount and he that holds it forth The Name of God written and the Writer of it That Lamb was a light to the sealed-Church at least for about a thousand years Ch. 20.4 But to the Conscript-Church he shall be a Temple in her a Pattern to her not for a thousand years but unto all ensuing Ages Not by any corporal presence but by the abundance of the Graces of his Spirit When he was Corporally present on Earth he was called in scorn by the Pharisees a Samaritan and was indeed that good Samaritan that left the best Pattern upon Scripture Record of perfect Righteousness to all posterity And first Jesus said A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among Theeves which stripped him of his Raiment and wounded him and departed leaving him half dead And by chance there came down a certain Priest that way and when he saw him he passed by And likewise a Levite when he was at the place came and looked on him and passed by on the other side But a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was And when he saw him he bad compassion on him and went to him and bound up his wounds pouring in Oyl and Wine and set him on his own Beast brought him to an Inn and took care of him and said to the Host Take care of him c. Luke 10.30 to 38. Saw him Not only the man but that which was right in it self and due to be done For the Priest and Levite passing by saw him but would not see to do what was right Their seeing him signified nothing So the Children of the Son of perdition see their neighbour So the sealed and true Saints commonly see their Brother Their seeing signifies little Inanimadvertency next to Avarice if not before it is the root of all evil in the body of the Apostacy of Antichrist But the wounded Man wanted speedy help There

Apostate in Manners was laid in the Ballance and found wanting wantinng in the weight of her former graces in the worth of her first works She fell from being most fruitful in well doing to be a Cage of every hateful Bird Therefore Her plagues came in one day Death Mourning Famine Fire c. I might produce many Presidents As the fall of Pharaoh's servants Sodom Jerusalem And indeed all places and persons that have perished have had this levity of Judgement and works the cause of their perdition Therefore It requires our speedy disquisition to find out what this dangerous levity that brings such swift destruction is that we may with all diligent care avoid it and find out that substantial Gold of sound Judgement and sincere Obedience which shall be subordinate to Christ the Rock of safety to Ages and support of all Princes and people Levity in love and Works is Sensual Earthly and Devilish And first Sensual Sensual Professors filthy Sodomites make substantial Truth sober Advice and sincere Obedience matters of extream Laughter So Lot seemed to his Sons in Law as one that mocked or made sport And this makes all their sins so far incorrigible These Professors though they scarce can be so called can condemn any man O horrendum bestiale before they hear him any Book before they read it and the Grounds of their such solid Judgements is their trivial Levity of lavish petulancy Sodom 't is not said she gave no Alms strengthened not by giving the hands of the poor And her Antitype Such Sodomites do the same give perhaps but by giving strengthen not the needy These men grow daily as they grow in years not in Grace but Wit And that Wit is only extream Folly These wild Beasts are but sensless Risibilists and their Judgements and Works so light that they are not worth the weighing of them But God will lay them and their works as he did revelling Belshazzar in his ballance Secondly The Judgements and works of Earthly-minded Professors seeming more solid are much lighter Their levity is less seen and longer before it be discerned So Pilate heard and examined seemed duly to examine our blessed Saviour found no fault in him and then through Earthly Interests condem'nd him to be put to death whereas filthy Sodomites professors sensual are not fit nor able to examine any man searce with any appearance of Sedulity Their volatile petulancy and levity of folly permits them not to be so serious or industrious Or if they have so much sobriety as to examine any man and find him faultless they are not usually so wicked with Pilate and secular Professors as to condemn him For it is not so much Sensual as Covetous and Earthly Interests that tend to condemn the Truth in deed and the witnesses thereof to Death Their Doom the Sentence of Men Earthly-minded falls far above the bolts of filthy Sodomites heavier upon the Truth and the Witnesses of it at last though they seem greatly to favour both at first For their levity of Love and Works being less seen is longer before it be discerned So Judas was Earthly-minded a thief saith the Text long before he was found out nor was he perceived by the Apostles for about 1260. dayes but then that Type-Son of Perdition and the Mystery of Iniquity in him was revealed His love to the Truth Loyalty to his Master Charity to men and care of the poor was laid in the Ballance and found wanting The Levity of the love of Earthly-minded Professors is discovered by the outward indices Angustum pectus parca manus Narrow hearts hands not enlarged Their rewards are ever inconform to the works of the well deserving or dilatory to destroy them Their grand pretence for their so doing is their great business both Secular Sacred So Ahab a Type of Antichrist was busie here and there saith the Prophet and by means of that business minded not the command of God lost his Kingdom thereby and destroyed himself and his family for ever So Secular Antichrist Ahabs Antitype is not ashamed no more then Ahab was to make the pretence of much business his plea against Obedience For Earthly minds full of worldly business exclude the testimony of the Truth at least in Works and all due regard to the witnesses of it Therefore Men Earthly-minded Secular Antichrist may be well known by their accumulating such business as arms them with sufficient excuses against the practice of good manners Their business is either Secular for Earthly Interests or seeming sacred for secular ends Therefore There 's no weight in all their good Works of which the best are strangled with a strait hand and being laid in the Ballance are found light like the Crowns of the Locusts But Thirdly The levity of Professors proud and Pharisaical being most light is more traductive and devilish Therefore they can censure not as Sodomites but as it were in sobriety before they see cause condemn before they know whom or for what They can readily say with Apostate Julian Legi Cognovi Damnavi Legi Here 's some labour lost labour the worst labour Cognovi Here 's some profit a man would think of their pains pains to no purpose pains without profit Damnavi Here 's the cursed truthcondemning fruit of proud Professors the fruit of all their pains in reading the result of all their acquisitions They only dream they know as some Prophets did and discern nothing Therefore as Balaam could not be stoptin his course to curse Israel these cannot be stay'd by any course from rash-censuring The Cataracts of rash condemnation fall not to be by any force repelled from the high praecipices of Pride and Ignorance and are the infallible Characters of Locusts and Hypocrites They are ever most busie and their business is about they think things sacred but serves only to deceive and be deceived In a word Their good works are so light that in substance they are but words of which none are good but in appearance and deceit The levity of the Righteousness of the Locusts and others consists in their Inadvertency or want of care to conceive and observe those Principles aforesaid of Incomplex-truth A Quo Quid Cui Quantum Quoties whose necessary considerations being but hinted before here fall under our further examination And First A Quo Or from whom what Truth in practise should chiefly proceed Silver and God said Peter have I none such as I have I give Rise up and walk Acts 3. From such as have no Silver nor Gold neither is due Nor must we expect that such as have no Spiritual use of any Limb themselves should afford the means to make others walk in right Obedience to God and good Works to men No man though many pretend it gives that to another which himself hath not to give But it 's a duty universal from all to do good to all which that they may do they must first have or seek to have the gift