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me even at that instant too when I took no care of my self at all but had devoted my self to death and that now he should not only deliver me but send me newes full of hopes O how these things did break my heart and work upon me most part of the night untill with an heart full and head full and eyes full and all I was fal'n into a deep sleep and visited with an extraordinary token from on high both in dream and vision which hath been since accomplished as I take it and the last in Ireland the last year The Dream was this that I was walking home to my Fathers house with a staffe in my hand and fearing lest I should be out of the way I looked for the path which at first I could scarce discerne was a path and began to look about and to question it till by and by I perceived some footsteps of some that had gone that way with that I went forward and the further I went the plainer I perceived it to be the path and that I was in the way and I could see no other at which I rejoyced and went on confidently as if I fear'd no evill nor enemy till I came to a fine glorious beautifull house and building on the left hand of me out of which came forth a beam which reached a little crosse the way I was to go in so that I being at a little stand at first yet would not stoop under this beam but stept aside and so pass'd away laying my hand on it as I step'd by the side of it but the house I thought was all in a flame of a sudden so that being something troubled thereat I passed on in the way wondring in my self what this should be till I was overtaken by some rude violent malicious men that laid to my charge the setting this house on fire and would not hear me speak but were harshly haling me away to prison with which being sufficiently frighted and all my flesh set a trembling I awaked and was offended with my self for being troubled at a dream a foolish fancy so I laid me it being yet dark and fell asleep again and was cast into the same dream again word for word and at my right hand I thought there was a grave ancient man full of white hairs like wooll a long white beard who stood by me and bid me chear up fear not for the Lord hath sent me to comfort thee and to tell thee that he hath chosen thee to preach his word and Gospell of Christ which is the staffe that thou hast in thy hand and which staffe that is the word of God thou shalt walk home with to thy Fathers house i. e. Heaven where is fulnesse of joy But after a time thou wilt be troubled with the different opinions and waies of men and seem at first to be at a losse but the Lord will be thy guide go on and as thou goest forward the way of the Lord will lye clearer and clearer before your eyes but the footsteps are the examples of the Saints that have gone before you which will be a great help unto you and you shall walk chearfully on in the way which is clear to you then the which you shall see no other but yet you must meet the fair house on the left hand i. e. the glory and great ones of the world who make a great and fair shew to men as built high but they must fall and are but on the left hand of you whilest you will despise them preach against them and turn your eye looking forward to go on in the way of God and turn not about but the beam that comes out of this great house which makes so much shew is meant the powers and opinions of such which whilest somewhat crosse to the way you step aside and will not stoop under they are set on fire and enflamed of a sudden but be not troubled go forward although they will send after you saying you have brought this fire upon them and they will falsly accuse you and seek to hale you away to prison for this fact At which I awaked again this being morning about day-break I wondred with my self what this meant I thought it surely more then ordinary and being filled with confidence and comfort I rose up and writ it down presently And away I went that day towards Didington in Huntington-shire where the Lord Brudenell once lived but was then sequestred and one that the Committee put in had Gentlemens children to board with him whom I afterward taught But after all these deliverances I did multiply abundantly in gifts and graces either to pray expound read sing Hymns and spirituall Songs with the Spirit and with understanding as Israel in Exod. 1. the more he was afflicted the more multiplyed so blessed be the Lord I was the more filled with the Spirit endued with strength and grace refreshed with peace and joy the more I had so suffered So that all my troubles were but a Josephs step through grace to higher enjoyments and finding the Lord so abundantly to endue me from above and to qualifie me for the call which I had before in the night for the ministry which then I little meant or imagin'd could be it being often resolved against before by my Father and my books ordered to be packed up but finding things following so fairly to concurre I was much confirmed in it that the Lord had design'd me thereunto In Huntington-shire teaching school first at Brudenel's house and afterwards the Free-school of St. Neotts I began with the boyes ever in prayer first at 7. 1. and ended with prayers at 11. 5. on the Saturdaies in the afternoon I catechised them and expounded their Catechismes by the Scriptures and expounded Scriptures and so singing a Psalm with prayer we concluded At this time I came to be convinced of the Parliaments proceedings and cause to be more regular and in order to the great work that God hath to doe in Nations then the Kings by comparing them together and bringing them to the Word and then I saw clearly by the Word that God would doe what he hath to be done by them and for them and for the Common-wealth it was not long after this that I was by a godly people in T●seland earnestly importuned and at last prevailed with to preach the Gospel and I was soon known in the Countrey and after sent for into Essex where I setled passing twice through the Assemblie on Examination and approbation So although ever since I have met with many sorts of afflictions and oppositions lies slanders threatnings libels vows and endeavours to take away my life yet many have added testimony to the Word I have delivered in all places the Lord be praised to the great refreshing of my soule and towards the making

the Church viz. to speak object offer or vote with the rest which this Scripture nor no other as I know of doth in the least hinder but rather help being rightly considered For 2. He saith it is not permitted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by reason of the disorders and differences that then were in the Church it was thought inconvenient to allow womens liberty to preach publiquely whereby they brought but confusion into the Church as appears in the antecedent and subsequent words vers 33. and vers 40. so that the ill consequence was the cause of this rule of prudence not any positive command of Gods but he spake as in 1 Cor. 7.6 And it is a quest●on whether it be a standing precept So that from this very Scripture besides a hundred others I do verily beleeve that handmaids shall prophecy and have more publick liberty then now they have but however this does nothing at all disallow or deny them their common private proper liberty as members of Christs body equally with men I say as members though not as officers and so subjective to the whole 2. To women I wish ye be not too forward and yet not too backward but hold fast your liberty in Gal. 5.1 which the Apostle speaks as well to the sisters as the brethren Christ hath made ye free male and female ye are all one in Christ and ought to be so in the Church wherefore stand fast saies he that is keep your ground which Christ hath won and got for you maintain your right defend your liberty even to the life lose it not but be courag●ous and keep it And yet be cautious too festina lente not too fast but first be swift to hear slow to speak Jam. 1.19 unlesse occasion requires you your silence may sometimes be the best advocate of your orderly liberty and the sweetest evidence of your prudence and modesty as one saies Silentium saepissime addit foeminis gratiam et decus maxime apud viros cum de rebus seriis agitur and yet ye ought not by your silence to betray your liberty trouble your consciences lose your priviledges and rights or see the truth taken away or suffer before your eyes but I say be not too hasty nor too high for as the note that comes too nigh the margent is in danger to run into the text the next impression so spirits that run too high at first may soon fall into disorder and irregularity It is said when Cyrus was young his Grandfather made Sacas his overseer to order him both in his diet time and recreations but when he came to riper years he became a Sacas to himself and took not so much liberty as he had leave to do and as was allowed him by his governour Sacas And so indeed that may be lawfull to you that is not as yet expedient for you and rather then run into disorder and confusion hold your liberty a little in suspense and wave it on some occasions wherein you lawfully may but lose it not for all the world which Christ payed so great a price for and prepare for fairer gales As the Miller does for though he cannot command the winde yet he will spread his sailes out and open them in a readinesse when he is in hopes of its coming and so do you and when the winde blowes which begins your liberty with full sailes shall bring forth abundantly to serve all the countrey round In the mean time make much of the ordinances prize your hitherto liberty and practise accordingly And in a word I say to all Those whom God hath joyned together let no man put asunder CHAP. IX 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This last Chapter shewes what Church this Treatise mentions and clears it from all others and shewes wherein the Presbyterians and we disagree and wherein they and the Papists agree in most of the essentiall differences between them and us for Discipline Doctrine and Practise and proves this Gospell-Church-State the great promise and thing typified in the last daies and the Paradise on earth to be restored I Had thoughts now to have rested me for a while but I am jogg'd up again by the jarring noises which many make about the name of a Church I must now arise and wet my pen a little more before I conclude this Treatise or take my rest You have had the essentialia laid before you and in this first and second part have had the totum homogeneum of a true Church both what is to be done before and what in and upon embodying together but what is to be done after followes after in the third Part which I promise next if the Lord give me leave wherein you shall have I hope so the totum organicum of a true Church of Christ. But before that will be ready I must meet with some rough Opinionists who will bid me stand or at least with such who have the hands of Esau though the voice of Jacob and so the principles and practises of the Pope though the pretences and protestations of a Presbyter that will not let me passe thus without a full discharge and a violent volley upon me made up of wilde fire and not with the fire from above but I must force my way in the name and strength of the Lord and I shall lay before them before I leave them the rotten foundation they are built upon which without mercy may be their ruine and whose cause and quarrell it is they are engaged in and whose design they carry on against the Saints and servants of the most High And the Lord give them grace to consider and separate from it for else I dare confidently affirm they will be found fighters against God Act. 5. I shall first offer y●u what we mean consideration 1 by the Church of Christ where this discipline and order is set which we have handled and shall endeavour to take off all doubts and distractions which may else arise about the word for that Ecclesia est quid dam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 various Controversies have shot out from the word and name as well as the thing and nature of a true Church Formerly between the Pontifitians and Protestants and of late between the Presbyterians and Independents as will easily appear upon perusall of Mr. Rutherford's Right of Presbyteries Mr. Bailies Disswasive Mr. Prinns 12 Questions and Independency examined c. Mr. Ball 's late Treatise Vindiciae Clavium Mr. Hudson's Church Catholick visible cum multis aliis c. I take the name of Church two waies either strictly or at large proxime proprie aut remote late at large or more remotely and improperly it is to be considered either in respect to and with distinction from Infidels and Pagans or else collectively in respect of Christians amongst themselves in the first respect as opposed to Turks and Paynims all

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to surpasse all others without both for abundance and the goodnesse of the fruits As far exceeding such as the choysest Orchard or Garden-fruits excell common hedge-crabs or high-way fruits So sayes he Matth. 5.27 What doe yee more then others else it is a burning blushing shame to bee of the Garden and yet to let others bring forth as good fruits thus sayes Paul 1 Cor. 3.3 c. Are yee yet carnall as yee were before when yee were without Doe yee yet walke as men O fic what not now to live at a higher and holier rate then others when your heels ought to bee above their heads that are without Such Garden-Saints by Christ are to become so fruitfull above others by having from him fuller and freer influences then others For he is the Fountaine of Gardens and streams from Lebanon Thus saith he I will cause them that come out of Jacob to take root Isa. 27.6 Israel shall blossome and bud and fill the face of the world with fruits So in Hos. 14.5 6. I will bee as the dew unto Israel he shall grow as the Lilly and cast forth his roots as Lebanon i. e. in abundance of streams and sweetest sap-roots to receive the soule of their soile and the heart of their dewes to reach out and runne farre for his branches shall spread and his beauty shall be as the Olive tree and his smell as Lebanon then Thus they fructifie from Christ as in Joh. 15.4 5. Without him they can do nothing and are but as withered branches saplesse and fruitlesse wherefore blessed be they that blossome in the Spring now and are not nipped off againe by Borean blasts but be well sett for growing and ripening for in this Autumne-harvest which is now nigh us as the Sunne growes hot and high they shall bee gathered full ripe into the Fathers floore or Garner So be it Fifthly He hath them in his care constantly as a man hath his Garden and that most of all for that hee will not suffer Swine to set footing there but keeps them without amongst their bruitish brood So the Lord hath built a watch-tower to over-look all the Church So Isa. 27.3 I the Lord do keepe it and I will water it every moment lest any should hurt it I will keep it night and day By day and by night upon all her glory I will be her defence Isa. 4.5 Hee will not suffer one Saint to be hurt by the wilde Boars of the wood or the Foxes of the field for he sets traps to take them Cant. 2.15 Sixthly such a society of Saints are his Garden-delights his Darling-delights and he dearly loves to live and lodge there Cant. 7.11 12. to eat and drinke there Cant. 5.1 of his pleasantest fruits and sweetest Spices Cant. 4.16 of his beautifull beds and to gather fair Lillies Cant. 6.2 and there his presence is most eminent excellent free and frequent in the midst of his companions viz. the Saints Cant. 8.13 to the ravishing of their soules with his sweetest loves Cant. 7.12 there he loves to walke alife Psal. 132.13 14. and to shew to his Saints his beauty Isa. 33.17 Thus is the Church of Christ his choysest Garden and therein especially is his presence most excellent as the proper sphere and orbe wherein the Sunne moves to give his light to the world Wee know that nothing which is not what it is by nature can longer be so then the cause continues and the working of the cause which effects it to bee so as water which is not by nature hot will not bee hot longer then the fire makes it so but little by little it returnes to its naturall coldnesse againe so the ayre which is naturally darke is no longer lightsome then the Sunne makes it so but the Sunne with-drawne it will turne againe to darknesse and indeed Christ this Sunne as long as hee shines wee are light and shall be light but no longer Now he hath promised in speciall manner to be a light in the midst of us his Churches for there he delights most to bee O that it may be said of all Churches now as once Caesar Augustus said of Rome That though he found them bricke yet he left them Marble So though Christ hath found us a wildernesse yet hee hath made us an Eden or Gardens-inclosed fruitfull and faire pleasant and profitable to God and men But thus you may see in all and in more then all these respects that the Lord is now raising up the Saints and rearing up his Sion as he hath promised This blessing is already begun and in these dayes Christ calls us aloud as Cant. 4.8 Come with me from Lebanon i. e. out of the Forrest in the North 2 King 14.9 Isa. 29.17 where wild beasts were so out of mixed congregations and from wildernesse-companions c. O my Spouse come with me looke from the top of Amana i. e. interpretatur ●urbulentus that is from all wicked and turbulent spirits that oppose the truth yea a mount of Tyrants void of all goodnesse and great Persecutors of Gods people looke from them all and from the top of Shenir and Hermon Shenir interpretatur faetor from the Lions dens from the mountains of Leopards This is the call of Christ to us in these dayes to have us looke learne and live beyond this wildernesse-condition and all them without that are enemies to the Gospel and Garden-way of Christs Worship for now the Lord in order to the restauration of Doctrine and Discipline declares new things Isa. 42.9 before they spring forth he tels us of them Wherefore sing a new Song verse 11. Let the wildernesse rejoyce and all the Villages of Kedar Darknesse Let the inhabitants of the Rocke Christ and all that dwell in the clefts of the Rocke shout out from the tops of the Mountains Amen Finde no fault with these dayes then but wait Isa. 25.9 for the wine will be best at last and in the evening it shall bee light richest promises are reserved for us therefore called the most precious 2 Pet. 1.4 In these dayes shall the Branch of righteousnesse grow up Jer. 33.14.15 and our blessed Ahashuerus shall take in Esther The face of Church-discipline shall shine againe and the King shall delight in her beauty Psal. 45.10 11. Besides the abundance of Scripture-prophesies prooving of this I have seen many remarkable Prophesies of late largely foretelling these glorious times As of one Methodius in the yeare two hundred and fifty in a Treatise de Novissimis temporibus hee tells us how the Kingdome of Christ in these last dayes shall be lifted up above all mountains but first hee sayes That many mighty Ishmaelites must fall and then shall follow peace and joy to the Saints I have also met with Hermas whom wee read of Rom. 16.14 and Jerome calls

we differ from them in their cutting the bread and so in distributing it which destroyes the nature of an ordinance of breaking bread Acts 2.42 46. Acts 20.7 as it is properly called in Scripture seeing they who will have some of their humane inventions in it and will be medling though not mending doe slice or cut it ready to be given about but this ordinance of mans make and mixture I confesse the poore people have had and been gull'd with for many a year whilest they are kept and continued in ignorance as to the Ordinance of Christ to the Ordinance of breaking bread and scoffe at it not knowing what it is Thus the poore people as long as they are without are caged up under Antichristian darknesse and discipline 4. The Presbyterians and Papists agree much about their Doctrine of works which I shall instance in some particulars As first of the necessity of good workes The Papists say that good workes are necessary to Salvation not onely necessitate praesentiae but efficientiae as efficient causes together with faith of our salvation Bellarm lib 6. de justificat cap 7. The Presbyterians I mean the rigid amongst them have affirmed and yet doe the like necessity of good workes to qualifie us and prepare us for Christ viz repentance tears confession of sins c. But we dissent from both and say with Mr. Rogers in his Right way to be saved pag 54. there be no works of ours which prepare us for Christ and such as look for something to ground on in themselves mistake grossely and are lost Like one that does not set the young tree but lets it lye on the ground till he sees what fruits t will bear as we said before O no! but let it first be rooted and grounded and then you shall see what fruits so must you be grounded in Christ and then bring forth fruits and workes from Christ then your repentance is in Christ Acts 5.31 32. your faith in Christ Col 2.20 which is the work of God John 6. Fac Christi opera c. sayes Bernard in Paschal Serm 2. Doe Christ's workes good workes we grant but not as our owne but as Christs for as Augustine on John 15.5 sayes sive parum sive mullum sine illo fieri non potest in Tract 82. nothing little or much can be done without Christ for Phil 2.13 4.13 he worketh in you both to will and to doe Est deus in nobis agitante calescimus illo and I can doe all things through Christ that strengtheneth me sayes the Apostle and in this sense is that negative assertion of Dr. Twisse's quod homo nihil boni facit nisi deus in illo efficiat ut faciat Therefore we must not be puzzled and perplexed about works de nostro of our owne to fit us for Christ for whilest men think they must doe something themselves or else they cannot be justified and doe nothing for it or in it but onely believe and whilest they think God cannot but approve of their workes and accept of their services they run a great hazare with the Papists 1 Sam. 16.7 Psal. 62 9. and are with perplexible anxiety of spirit spying out for good works of their own make whilest the Apostle sayes Ephes 2.10 we are all his workmanship in Christ Jesus and tels us plainly our new works arise from this new creation for that no flesh might boast in his sight seeing Christ is not ours therefore salvation is not ours by any act of ours but of God in us and of grace teaching us Tim. 2.12 13. within hence is vocation 2 Tim. 1 ●9 Sanctification 2 Thes. 2.13 faith love repentance Rom. 2.4 every good woorke Ezek. 36.27 and everlasting life Rom. 6.23 all given by grace Therefore no good works of ours qualifie us for any of these thus sayes Mr. Perkins upon Galat. pag. 159. the Gospel offers and gives life freely without any condition of workes and requires nothing but receiving Object Yes on condition of faith Answ. Faith saith he is mentioned in the manner of a condition but it is of free grace and the meer gift of God as well as life eternall So that Faith brings forth workes but not workes faith for good workes sayes one followes Christ in us by faith as the fruits of the tree follow the growing and grounding of it a woman first is marryed then conceives then brings forth or else the children are illegitimate and so are those works illegitimate which flow not from the conjunction and conception of Christ in the heart but if they be before wee may blush at the sight of them and be ashamed of them and cannot boast of any credit or comfort of them Opera sunt secundum principium a quo sunt and till Christ be in us we say our best works are but dead workes two wayes 1. effectivè as sin 2. privativè without grace or the Spirit of Gods working But furthermore in the formal cause of justification the Papists affirm an inherent righteousnesse in us to make compleat the formality of justification Trident. concil sess 6. Can. 11. Rhemist Rom. 2. Sect. 4. Bel. lib. 2. de justif cap. 3. many Clergy men unguibus dentibus doe cry up an inherent righteousnesse too to make up compleat justification which we deny and abhor allowing the alone righteousnesse of Christ to justifie us before God and fully able to doe it without any addition of ours or any inherent qualification as to that See Rom. 8.2 Rom. 4.56 Rom. 5.24 2 Cor. 5 21· Phil. 3.9 for Christ's righteousnesse alone hath fulfilled the Law which is ours by imputation for our justification Rom. 8.4 being absolutely justified by that Christ's righteousnesse alone as our good workes doe not justifie us any thing so our evill workes doe not unjustifie us and so it is the weakest Saint is as absolutely righteous in the sight of God and as fully justified in the righteousnesse of another as the strongest And as most of the eminent Presbyterians are now come in to be one with us in this point so some of the Popish speciall Champions upon a parley have laid down their arms and doe join issue with us herein as Pighius de fide justifi● Cont 2. p. 45. who grants that we have no other righteousnesse to rest upon then that which Christus imputat nobis sine operibus nostris Christ imputes to us without works so Vatablus in Psalm 18.23 and the Author of Antidid●g Coloniens as Bell. confesses c. besides aboundance of famous writers which prove it at large Now lest I should be misconstrued by Criticks know that we affirm an inherent righteousnesse wrought by the Spirit in all such as are justified by faith in Christ but we say that it is rather a sanctification or the fruit and effect of justification then any wayes to be accounted of