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A89645	A little starre, giving some light into the counsels and purposes of God revealed in the Scriptures. Or A catechisme, wherein these ensuing principles. 1. What God is, and how he manifests himselfe. 2 Why he made the world and man. 3. Mans condition, what, 1. by creation. 2. By his fall. 3. By being restored by Jesus Christ. 4 The uses and ends of the law. 5. What the Gospell is. 6. Justification what it is. 7. Sanctification what, and how it is wrought. 8. What repentance is. 9. The use and ends of the Scriptures. 10. What true prayer is. 11. Baptisme, and the Lords Supper, why, and how used. 12. Generall redemption what, and how to be adjudged of. 13. Resurrection and judgement what. 14. Heaven and Hell what, in truth and misterie. All which are briefly by way of question and answer opened and explained. / By VVilliam Mason.	Mason, William, Anabaptist.	1653 (1653)	Wing M948; Thomason E1505_1; ESTC R208669	86,553	204

can abound I can as well be content to be hungry as to be full fed to be poor as to be rich to suffer as to raign to dye as to live when a man can live in God and unto God above all this world and esteem all things but drosse and dung in comparison of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus And true faith is also profitable to men when it is exercised in godly conference building up one another comforting one another and if need require reproving one another when it works in feeding the hungry clothing the naked releiving the oppressed and by doing to every man as we would be done unto This is living faith and it is thus evidenced to be alive Thus we are not justified by nor for our good workes for we are his workmanship created a new in Christ Jesus unto good workes that we should walk inthem Justification where it is indeed will evidence it self by acts of sanctification Q. What is sanctification And how is it wrought A. As Christ is made of God righteousnesse unto us for justification so also for sanctification as he is our justification because he perfectly fulfilled the righteousnesse of the Law for us and paid all our debts yeilding up himself to death for us so also he is become our sanctification by fulfilling the righteousnesse of the Law in our hearts even by living in us As we are justified by his death so we are saved or sanctified by his ●sfe Sanctification is an act of Gods infinite love whereby he takes us out of Adam or the old man and puts us into Christ or the new man and this is the new creation or the new creature when a man that before was unholy profane and to every good work void of judgement is now become through the power of Christ living in him holy unblameable and ready to every good work and this is wrought by the power of God revealing Christ in the soul when Christ is revealed in the soul to be white and ruddy the most excellent the most amiable one in whom God is well pleased and in whom his soul delighteth yea and by whom and in whom he is well pleased with poor sinners and delights in them then that soul is ravished with his beauty which is his love and with beholding or apprehending of it is transformed into the same Image of love more and more Christ is the Saints life and this life is hid in God untill it be revealed and when Christ who is our life doth appear in the soul then the soul lives in his life and appeares with him in glory Now every one in whom Christ lives indeed he conformes them to himself First in death if Christ be risen in the soul then the old man is crucified that the body of sin might be destroyed and the soul is dead indeed unto sin but alive unto God in holinesse through Jesus Christ who lives in him Secondly Where Christ is risen indeed there is a conformity in life Christ being the life living in the soul the soul must needs live indeed and live unto God and not any longer to the flesh for to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace and thus is Christ our sanctification when he arises and appeares in our hearts whereby he transformes and changes us into his own Image even his Image of glory more and more Q. But doth not the Lord in Scripture call men to repentance and promise them life upon condition of the same yea the Lord doth solemnly protest that he delights not in the death of him that dieth but rather that he should repent and turn and live And again why will yee die repent and turn and live yee And our Saviour saith except yee repent yee shall all perish and the Apostles exhort them in the Acts to repent for the remission of sinnes and that their sinnes might be blotted out And again if we confesse our sinnes he is faithfull and just to forgive us our sinnes and to cleanse us from all unrighteousnesse Doth it not from all these places appear very plain that repentance is necessarily required as a meanes or at least a condition of life A. There is in Scripture a twofold repentance spoken of a repentance of the Law and a repentance of the Gospel The repentance which is of the Law is suteable to that Covenant of workes which the Israelites were under for temporal blessings when they at any time acted contrary to the command then the Lord plagued them sometimes with famine pestilence warre captivity c. untill they did repent and when they repented or ceased from their wicked wayes and works then the Lord would also repent or remove the judgement for temporal blessings were promised upon condition of outward obedience and temporal punishments were diverted or turned away upon their legal repentance and ceasing from their evill wayes In the time of Ezekiels prophesie the Israelites were many of them in captivity already and the rest of them were threatened and when the Lord by the Prophet called for repentance the people thought it was to small purpose to repent seeing their fathers had eaten sour grapes and their teeth were set on edge and that it was but a light businesse to promise them any good upon condition of repentance seeing they did but pine away in their fathers sinnes To which the Lord commands the Prophet to tell them that it was no such matter it was their own sin which was the cause of their misery and that if they would return from their idolatries and other abominations he would cease from punishing of them and hereupon uses that solemn oath As I live I have no delight in plaguing you I had rather yee would turn from your evill wayes and live in your own land why will yee die or why will yee be slain or die by famine or pestilence c. And so our Saviour tells those which spake to him of Pilates cruelty that unlesse they did repent they should likewise perish meaning that some temporal judgement would overtake them and thus legal repentance served onely for the preventing or diverting of temporal punishments But repentance which is of the Gospel is not any meanes or condition of life for eternal life is the gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord and it is a free gift and not purchased by repentance nor yet promised nor given upon condition of repentance for it is not sin nor Satan nor death it self can make a separation between them that are elected and the love of God in Christ Jesus which is eternal life The Lord who hath promised is not a man that he should lie or the son of man that he should repent in this respect Now this repentance is called godly sorrow and it is wrought by the working power of

A LITTLE STARRE Giving some light into the counsels and purposes of God revealed in the Scriptures OR A CATECHISME Wherein these ensuing principles 1. What God is and how he manifests himselfe 2. Why he made the world and man 3. Mans condition what 1. By creation 2. By his fall 3. By being restored by Jesus Christ 4. The uses and ends of the Law 5. What the Gospell is 6. Justification what it is 7. Sanctification what and how it is wrought 8. What repentance is 9. The use and ends of the Scriptures 10. What true prayer is 11. Baptisme and the Lords Supper why and how used 12. Generall redemption what and how to be adjudgedof 13. Resurrection and Judgement what 14. Heaven and Hell what in truth and misterie All which are briefly by way of Question and Answer opened and explained By VVilliam Mason That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Sonne Jesus Christ 1 Joh. 1. 3. London Printed by G. D. for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls TO ALL THE SAINTS Scattered particularly throughout Oxford-shire Warwick-shire and Northampton-shire and more generally throughout England especially they under lower dispensations Grace and Peace be multiplyed DEARE BRETHREN IT is a sad thing to consider how the Saints who are united and made one with and in Jesus Christ by partaking of his Spirit or divine nature should yet be so disunited and broken off one from another by yielding to much to that spirit of the world or rather to that principle of envy and malice which Sathan the God of this world labours to throw in amongst them Is it not cause of much sadness and grief to see that a little difference in opinion produceth great breaches and much estrangedness in affection and yet this difference being weighed in the ballance of true Judgement will be found no difference amongst them who are truly Saints Indeed There are some who say they are Jewes and are not but doe lie and these are some of them high in notion but altogether without life and power of godliness and the difference between the Saints and such in point of sound doctrine is very great But the Saints who are truly so indeed they all indeavour to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace They all know and profess that there is but one body whereof they are members and that there is but one Spirit by which they are united and made one in this body and that their hope whereof they are not ashamed is one and the same being effectually called thereunto they all profess and acknowledge one Lord in whom they do believe and one faith by which they believe and one baptisme through which they are not onely made conformable to Christ in his death but also are made like unto him in his glorious resurrection unto newnesse of life And are also annointed with him to hold forth the same to others they all professe one God who is the Father the Fountain the Originall of all good who is above all in respect of his glorious power and through whose infinite love and goodness they all obtaine life and happiness and who is in them all to act and carry them on unto eternall glory Thus the Saints who are so indeed hold correspondencie one with another in the substance of religion and the difference between them is but a seeming difference a difference in regard of manifestation for to every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ The Lord dispenseth not alike to all but to every one a measure as he will and yet they may be all of one and the same Judgement though some of a higher and some of a lower degree Moses had high and glorious manifestations and yet he was of the same judgement w th the meanest of his Saints in that generation Paul was taken up into the third Heavens in respect of those glorious revelations and high discoveries of God made known unto him and yet he was as the Saints were that so he might perswade them to be as he was yea he submitted to the weakness of the Saints that he might thereby bring them up into strength Al the differences among the Saints at this day is onely about externall and outward formes and observations I which are all terminated in Christ when they once come to know him and are taught by him as the truth is in him then they cannot look for him at any distance for he is in them the hope of glory It is a great fault among children to begrudge one another of their fathers gifts there be severall attainments among Saints or severall degrees of manifestations there be some babes and some strong men and there is milk for the one and strong meat for the other they that be strong were once weake and they who are weak as yet will in time grow strong my deare Friends let us leave judging and censuring one another for who art thou that iudgest another mans servant let us indeavour unity peace and concord let us walk in love oh if we could love one another with a pure heart fevently with what sweet imbraces should we receive and injoy each other how would our heavenly Father be glorified how would truth be advanced and appear like it selfe and how would errors heresies lyes and falshoods run into holes to hide themselves yea how soon might we expect to see our dread Soveraign the Lord Jesus comming forth gloriously and riding on prosperously conquering and to conquer and bringing the wheele over sin and flesh and all sinners and ungodly men who hold the truth in unrighteousness and proclaiming that joyfull Jubile to all his who are yet kept under by poverty debt c. Sin ignorance unbelief weakness clouds forms observations Friends rest not in shadows let your souls inherit substance Christs kingdome is spirituall it is within and it is above all outward observations it is not meat and drink but it is righteousness peace and joy in the holy Ghost This little Starre if it please the Father of Lights may lead you toward this King or this little Catcchisme may instruct you in the way to this Kingdom It presents you with no new thing but cleers up old truths and distinguisheth them from new errors It comes not busling forth stuft full of humane testimony but it comes forward gently and meekly attended with divine evidence and witness Dear Friends first read and then judge but be not rash in censuring if any thing seem difficult weigh the Scriptures in the margent and yet if difficulties and doubts still arise wait upon God by prayer and supplication of the Spirit