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A30579	Gospel-conversation: wherein is shewed, I. How the conversation of believers must be above what could be by the light of nature. II. Beyond those that lived under the law. III. And suitable to what truths the Gospel holds forth. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to Stepney and Criplegate, London. Being the third book published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simpson, Philip Nye, William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6076A; ESTC R213106	221,498	277

His subjects every subject of Christ hath his will and heart subdued to Jesus Christ It is not so in this world men may be subject to the Kings of this world meerly by constraint because they dare not do otherwise many Kings in this world have subjects whose hearts are not with them who love them not the Kings of this world they rule only the outward man But Christs Kingdom is another kind of Kingdom He rules in the hearts of men there is His Throne in the wills in the affections of men in the consciences of men Christ swaies His Scepter in mens souls men by conquest they subdue subjects to themselves Christ he subdues too in a way of conquest but he doth not subdue the outward man so much as the inward man the will is subdued to Christ He swaies His Scepter in their hearts this is a great mystery of godliness the swaying of the Scepter of Jesus Christ in the hearts of the Saints and therefore the Scripture tels us That the Kingdom of God is within us it is an inward Kingdom That 's the third thing wherein the difference between Christs Kingdom and the Kingdoms of the world consists Fourthly The Laws of Christ are Spiritual Observe the difference between the Laws of Christ in the government of His Church and the Laws that are for the government of the world it will be of very great use for you to know The Lord in His Providential Kingdom appointing Magistrates to govern here in the world in His room He leaves them to make Laws according to the general rules of prudence and justice such Laws are sufficient for the governing of the outward man and for the attaining to a Civil end for which their government is appointed But now Jesus Christ in His Mediatory Kingdom in His Church He makes all the Laws Himself He doth not leave it unto the Church to make new Laws according to the rules of their own prudence what they conceive to be fit in way of prudence no but they must fetch the Laws out of His Word and impose none but the same Laws that are in His Word they must have a Scriptum est it is written here are these and these texts of Scripture for what is enjoyned nothing must be added unto what He hath in His Word revealed only there are Divine Laws for the government of His Church now 't is true that the Church because they are a society of men they have some things natural and some things civil among them so far as they have need of natural and civil helps so far there may be Laws made according to rules of prudence and justice and Magistrates may come in to be helpful to the Church so far as they have need here of natural and civil helps as a society of men But now to speak properly to that which belongs to them meerly as they are the Church of Christ besides that that they have need of as they are men and natural and civil societies I say what belongs to them meerly considered as a Church of Christ they are to be governed only by the Laws of Jesus Christ who is the only Law-giver only by the Laws of the Word and there is not that liberty of making new Laws in the Church as there is of making new Laws in the Common-wealth and State and that 's a great difference between the Kingdom of Christ and the Kingdoms of this world That 's a fourth The Laws are different The Laws are different not only that they are by Divine revelation in the one and left to humane prudence in the other But 2 ly in the one the Laws bind conscience in the other they do not they do not bind conscience any further than the nature of the thing that is required binds except it be in case of scandal and contempt so our Divines that have been the most orthodox have gone that the Laws of men in the State they bind not conscience that is if a man should not do the thing that is required he should in conscience be bound over to eternal death for not doing it this is a very hard bondage a cruel yoke but thus if the thing that is required be right and just then the nature of the thing may bind conscience for then there comes in a Law of God if the thing be just and right that is required or however if I know nothing to the contrary but it may be just and right I must not break the Laws of man so as to give scandal or in a way of contempt but if it be privatly so as it be no scandal nor no contempt and the nature of the thing bind me not then my conscience is not bound over as guilty of eternal death if so be I do not every thing that man requires But now the Laws of Christ they are such as bind conscience as they come from him he is such a King that I say because they come from him and from his Will though we see no reason in the matter of the thing though they have nothing in the nature of the thing but meerly the Will of Christ it 's enough to tye conscience and to bind us even upon pain of eternal death to obedience Fiftly Christs Kingdom is not of this world That homage that the Saints do unto Christ it is not worldly but spiritual the Worship of Christ and the Ordinances of Christ they are not worldly but spiritual Now the Kings of this world they may appoint what kind of worship they please that is what Ceremonies they will whereby their subject should tender up their homage to them and now men have ventured to be so bold with Christ the King because men may tender up their homage unto their earthly Kings by any waies invented of their own therefore they have thought that they might presume to tender up their homage to Christ their spiritual King by any waies of invented worship and therein was a great error they lookt upon the Kingdom of Christ only in a carnal way whereas the Kingdom of Christ is such as all our homage that we tender up to Him must be Spiritual it must be Heavenly it must be from Heaven it must be from Christ Himself it must be from some Institution and Appointment of Jesus Christ and the more the kingdom of Christ doth prevail the more Spiritual shall that homage be that the subjects tender up to Him therefore you shall find that when the holy Ghost speaks of the Kingdom of Christ in the new Testament with reference unto that which was then in the old Testament He calls even those waies of worship in the old Testament worldly in comparison of the worship and homage that the Saints tender to Christ in the new Testament as in Gal. 4. 3. Even so we when we were children were in bondage under the elements of the world The ceremonies of the Law are call'd here the elements of

could not have bin better for Paul to have been dead than to live it were better that Paul had lived even to the day of Judgment than to have died and so to be nothing and turned into dust but he saith that when he died he should be with Christ which was better for him but that which swayed him on the other side why he should be willing to live it was this That he might be useful to the Churches Nevertheless it is better for you that I should abide in the flesh Service to the Churches is the great cause that makes one who hath made his peace with God to be willing to live it is not that he may live in ease and enjoy pleasures to the flesh but that he may live and do service for God that makes him willing to live And then he tels them he is confident he shal continue with them a while for the furtherance of their faith and that by his coming to them their rejoycing should be more abundant but in the mean time whether I do come or come not Only let your Conversation be as becometh the Gospel of Christ As if he should say I shall the more willingly live my life wil be the more comfortable to me it will somthing recompence my absence from Heaven my staying from the joyes of it if your Conversation be as becometh the Gospel of Jesus Christ If I may hear from you being absent or when I come to you I may see that your Conversation be as becommeth the Gospel of Jesus Christ This is the dependancy of the words For the opening of the words Only Only let your Conversation That is as if he should say be not solicitous about me and my sufferings and what shall become of me and whether I shall come to you or not be not so careful about that only let your care be taken up about this great business That your Conversation be as becometh the Gospel of Christ for saies he this should be the main thing that I should aim at if I should come to you this is that I should put you upon and give you directions about That your Conversation be as becometh the Gospel of Jesus Christ And if I be absent there is not any thing I desire more to hear of than this That you that have received the Gospel of Christ from my hands as it were through my Ministry that your Conversations be as becometh the Gospel of Jesus Christ Brethren if we had Paul here present with us or preaching among us or if he were alive and could write an Epistle to this Congregation or any other Congregation the main drift of his preaching or writing would be to those that had heretofore received the Gospel That they would make it their great care that their Conversations be as becomes the Gospel of Christ Only let your Conversation The word here is a word taken from the ordering of a City or a Common-wealth wherein every one acts in their own sphere and is serviceable each unto other to the publick good so saith he the Church of God it is as a City as a Common-wealth wherein every Christian is to act in his own sphere and every one laboring for the good each of other in a comely order that so there may not only be peace in the Churches but edification of all and the Gospel may thrive and prosper that 's the meaning of this word translated here Let your Conversation As if he should say Do not think it enough that you have some enlightenings that you have some stirrings some affections are moved by the Ministry of the Gospel rest not there but look to your Conversation It is not enough for Christians to have knowledg and to be able to speak of the Gospel and have some stirrings of affection but they must look to their Conversations Let your Conversation be As it becometh the Gospel of Christ For the opening of these words there are these two things considerable First What is this Gospel of Christ that here is spoken of And secondly What is it so to live as becometh the Gospel of Christ Let your Conversation be as becometh the Gospel of Christ The Gospel of Christ in general is this It is the good Tydings that God hath revealed concerning Christ This hath come unto your ears the good Tydings concerning Christ for so the word Gospel the Greek word signifies nothing else but the good Tydings the good Tydings that comes from Heaven unto you concerning Jesus Christ that 's the Gospel of Christ More largely it is this As all Mankind were lost in Adam become the children of wrath put under the sentence of death God though he left his fallen Angels and hath reserved them in the chains of eternal darkness yet he hath thought upon the children of men he hath provided a way of atonement to reconcile them to himself again Namely the second Person in Trinity takes mans nature upon him and becomes the Head of a second Covenant standing charged with mans sin and to answer for it in a way of suffering what the Law and Divine Justice required and for making satisfaction and keeping the Law perfectly which satisfaction and righteousness he tenders up unto the Father as a sweet savor of Rest for the souls of those that are given to him and now this mediation of Christ is by the appointment of the Father preached to the children of men of what Nation or rank soever freely offering this unto sinners for atonement for them requiring them to beleeve in him and upon beleeving promising not only a discharge of all their former sins but that they shall never enter into condemnation that none of their sins or unworthiness shall ever hinder the peace of God with them but that they shall through him be received into the number of Sons that they shall have the Image of God again to be renewed in them that they shall be kept by the Power of God through faith and salvation that these souls and bodies shall be raised to the height of glory that such creatures are capable of that they shall live for ever enjoying the presence of God and Christ in the fulness of al good this is the Gospel of Christ this is the sum of the Gospel that is preached unto sinners when you hear speaking of the Gospel your thoughts may be about this this glad Tydings that is come into the world for salvation of sinful creatures through Jesus Christ and all the good things that Jesus Christ by his blood hath purchased for sinners When Ministers are cald the Ministers of the Gospel the meaning is they are appointed by God Ministers to declare and to preach this glad Tydings to the world Oh it is glad Tydings indeed to the world could there be such glad tidings preached at Hell gates that there were any such way of reconciliation of them to God we could not but conceive there would

Seneca though a Heathen I am greater saith he and I am born to greater things than to be a slave to my body A Heathen could say so Oh but when we hear of humane nature so advanced and enthroned in Christ we should think with our selves that any one that hath humanity in them is born to higher things than to make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof What wilt thou be a slave to the Devil now Thou hearest how God hath dignified the nature of man into so neer a union with himself Oh doth not this mysterie of the Gospel call to all the children of men Oh all you children of men Behold what God hath done for man kind surely the thoughts of God for man-kind are great and glorious there be higher things you may attain unto and will you yet perish and chuse your portion here in this world and be groveling on the ground as if there were no higher thoughts that God had for your good than meerly to live as brute beasts to eat and drink and then rise up to play Oh if God hath advanced mans nature so do not despise it in the meanest of the children of men the lowest servant or poorest boy that lies begging at your door for a piece of bread for it is of the same kind that is united in a personal union with the second Person in Trinity of the same nature which this poor boy that lies begging at your door for broken bread and meat therefore honor humane nature in every one and do not vilifie it in thy self those men that live under the Gospel and vilifie humane nature they put a dishonour upon Jesus Christ And even reverence thy self in private when thou art alone I say reverence thy self do not abuse thy body it is the Temple of the holy Ghost Oh remember this all you that are professors of Religion that these bodies of yours this flesh of yours if you be godly and walk answerable to your profession I say this flesh of yours it is the very Temple of the holy Ghost do not abuse it it 's the Apostles argument Therefore fly fornication and be not joyned to whores for your bodies are the temples of the holy Ghost Oh it makes the sin of uncleanness to one that professes the Gospel of Christ a cursed sin the sin of uncleaness in a professor of the Gospel it 's a thousand thousand times more abominable than the sin of uncleanness in another why Because they know how God hath advanced humane nature into a personal union with himself and how their bodies are the Temples of the holy Ghost What shal I make the Temple of God a ●●y for the unclean spirit a cage of unclean birds God forbid There hath been a great deal of do about stony Churches and Temples and you should have a great many base whoremasters plead for the Whore of Rome the Mistris of all fornications in bowing and cringing with Cap and knee as soon as they set their foot in some of our meeting places and in the mean time abuse the Saints which are the Temples of the holy Ghost and abuse their own bodies and yet they profess themselves Christians Oh now either deny thy Christianity or do not abuse thy body to any filthy lust for it is the Temple of the holy Ghost This the Gospel holds forth And let thy Conversation be now as becomes the Gospel of Jesus Christ not abusing thy body so For we see that the Gospel cals for bodily cleanness as well as spiritual cleanness and truly I do not know stronger arguments to godliness than these that we have mentioned here in the Gospel We have gone through three Gods infinit hatred of sin The price of souls And the honor that the Gospel shews that God hath put upon humane nature Conversations but becoming these three would be other manner of Conversations than you have I shall only speak of a fourth and that 's this 4. The Gospel holds forth the greatest example of self-denial that ever was in the world by all waies that ever God hath made known his mind he never hath revealed his will in an example of self-denial so as he hath done in the Gospel and that is in the example of the Lord Jesus Christ God evidenceth there such a work of self-denial as never was and 't is impossible to apprehend a greater example of self-denial than that is though Christ thought it no robbery to be equal with God reade but the second of the Philippians vers 7 8. and there you may see what Christ was and yet how he emptied himself how he denied himself in his honor how vile he was made in the world though he was the brightness of his fathers glory yet he was made of no reputation how he denied himself in riches Christ that was the Heir of all things though he were rich yet he was made poor for us how he denied himself in his pleasures he was the delight of the Father from all eternity and yet he was made a man of sorrows he denied himself in his life for he was the Lord of life and yet he subjected himself to death to a cursed death for us Oh the example of Christ in self-denial is the greatest that ever was and this seems to be one great end of the humiliation of Jesus Christ to hold forth a preaching pattern of self-denial to the world And there 's a great deal more power in the pattern and example of self-denial then in the commands of self-denial I only present this to shew you that it is the most unbeseeming the Gospel for any one that professes the Gospel to be selvish altogether scraping for themselves and whatsoever service they are put upon except self may have an oare in it they have no mind to it Oh 't is becoming the Gospel of Jesus Christ for men and women to be emprtied of themselves no matter what becomes of our selves but be willing to give up our selves for publick good to venture your estates and lives and all your comforts yea to be swallowed up in the glory of God to be nothing that Christ may be all In the Gospel of Christ we find that Christ he was swallowed up with the glory of his Father and he came not to do his own will but the will of his father that sent him and though he was one that had infinitely more excellency than all men and Angels in Heaven and Earth yet he was content for the honor of his Father to be made as a worm and no man to be trampled under foot to endure the greatest extremities of all sorts this holds out an example to us that while we live in this world we should be taken off from our selves Oh this self-love sticks much in the hearts of men and women now upon the example of Christs self-denial we are required to deny our selves and it is the proper lesson of the Gospel

be as it becomes the Gospel of Christ Only as if the Apostle should say the Gospel hath many things that darkens it and many adversaries that do oppose it Oh but Only let your Conversation be as it becomes the Gospel you need care for nothing that opposeth so you walk worthy of the Gospel only let your Conversation be as becomes the Gospel Now what a many enemies hath the Gospel at this day and what errors and divisions are there to ecclipse this Evangelical Sun Why now Only let your Conversation be as it becomes the Gospel That is in these times wherein there is so much done against the Gospel as if the Apostle should say Let all Devils and wicked men do what they can they shall never prevail against the Gospel if your Conversations be as becomes the Gospel this is enough to stand out against all that is done against the Gospel Oh me thinks this argument should be a prevailing argument Oh! do not your hearts bleed when you hear what opposition is made against the glorious Gospel of Christ that should be ten thousand times deerer than your lives here 's the way that the Gospel should stand against Hell and the gates of Hell all counsels of the enemy shall not prevail against the Gospel if your Conversations be as becomes the Gospel This will do it And mark what Paul saith he looks upon it as a thing thing dearer than his life to walk so as might further the Gospel 1 Cor. 9. 12. We suffer all things saith he lest we should hinder the Gospel of Christ Mark as if he should say Oh 'tis more dear than our lives a thousand times we will do any thing and suffer any thing Oh the Apostles spirit was filled with the sweetness of the Gospel he had found the good of it And here in this Scripture he saith Oh what shall I do what shall I suffer that I may not hinder the Gospel Let them do any thing that possibly can be to me or take what they will from me I crave not we suffer all things that the Gospel may not be hindred Now you will neither do nor suffer for the Gospel you will not part with a base lust that the Gospel may not be hindred one professor being overtaken with an apparent sin may do more hurt to the Gospel than he can do good all his life let him live as long as Methuselah that sin of yours that is so dear to you Will not you part with it it will hinder the Gospel Oh wilt not thou part with thy sin when any temptation comes to sin Let every one of you that profess you love the Gospel but think thus Oh but shall I not hinder the Gospel if I listen and yeild to this temptation indeed this will bring me a great deal of comfort and content and I shall get so much by it Oh but will it not obstruct the Gospel the very thought of this that it possibly may hinder the Gospel should cause your hearts to rise with indignation against that temptation and cast out that sin God forbid that I should meddle with that sin which wil hinder the Gospel And therefore in Act. 20 24. the Apostle professes that his life is not dear to him so be it he might but further the Gospel And in 1 Cor. 9. from the 12. vers to the 23. he professes there he would become all things to all men he would be a servant to any man and yeeld to all things that he could so be it he might not sin against God to be never so vile in the eyes of men and all that he might but further the Gospel Oh that it were but so in our hearts We reade of an excellent commendations of one in the 2 of Cor. 8. 18. That his praise is in the Gospel in all the Churches Oh this is an excellent thing when it can be said of a Professor of Religion it may be this man hath not any great commendation for parts no but his praise is in the Gospel As the Saints of God and all the Churches of God that knew him they highly commended him Why Because that the Gospel is furthered by him his praise is in the Gospel this we should labor al of us what possibly we can My brethren what a mercy is it that God should account any thing that we do worthy of the Gospel Mark the Text Why can we poor worms do any thing worthy of the Gospel I but though you can do but little God will account your endeavours even worthy of the Gospel John saith that he was unworthy to loose the latchet of Christs shoe nor worthy to carry the shoe of Christ● Then are we such as can walk worthy of the glorious Gospel Oh 't is Gods infinit goodness that shal account us to be worthy of the Gospel The Apostles did not account themselves worthy to suffer for the Gospel Acts 5. 41. And shall God account us to do that which is worthy of his Gospel Oh this should be a mighty encouragement to us to walk worthy of the Gospel And there is an notable encouraging text in Luke 21. 36. Walk worthy of the Gospel And then you shall see what God will account you worthy of Watch ye therefore and pray alwaies that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe and to stand before the Son of Man Watch and Pray be watchful in all your converse keep your communion with God close What will be the fruit of this That ye may be accounted worthy to escape these things that is the many afflictions dangers and evils that shall come upon the world you shall escape the evil of them at least And to stand before the Son of Man Here 's a notable Scripture to quicken up our hearts to walk conscionably and strictly in our Conversation watch over your waies stand upon your guard and pray that you may be accounted worthy to stand before the Son of Man Why Is there any that can stand before the Son of Man in glory or that shal be accounted worthy to stand before Him Yes a godly and gracious man or woman that walks conscionably in their Conversation when the Son of Man shall come in his glory they shal be able to stand before Him and be accounted worthy Oh then let your Conversation be as becomes the Gospel and you shall be accounted by God worthy to stand before the Son of Man Jesus Christ He walks towards you as becomes a Mediator yea Christ doth al things that are sutable to His relations as a Husband as a Savior Oh do you all things that are sutable to your relations And for the close of all I beseech you lay but to heart the great Design that God hath in the Gospel think thus with thy self Surely the Work of God in the Gospel is a glorious Work Well then surely God hath some great Design that He drives

Christ they may be under penalties You think that those that are beleevers cannot be chastised for their sin as if there were no penalties in Christs kingdom I confess they are delivered from the penalties of the Law But Christs inflicts penalties as he is King there may be penalties in Christs kingdom And the right understanding of this would much help us in that point Whether Beleevers may be chastised for sin or no though they be Beleevers Oh they will say No. Why Because Christ hath satisfied the Lawfully and how can God require it in them I confess the Law cannot I but Jesus Christ in His administration as He is King not as He is the Judge of the Law but as He is the King over them He may inflict chastisements upon them they may in Christs kingdom have some chastisements they cannot be carried out of that kingdom to have the chastisements of the Law but in Christs kingdom Jesus Christ many times inflicts spiritual chastisements upon them by hiding his face from them for sin and by many spiritual discertions and such men as are but by outward profession under the kingdom of Christ and do seem to be His Subjects and are not so indeed the Lord inflicts spiritual judgments upon them as hardness of heart blindness of mind reprobate sences and I beseech you observe it The Lord Christ doth not so much observe the way of outward judgements upon wicked men that are in the bosom of the Church as He doth observe to inflict outward judgments upon the Heathens and others that are out of the bosom of the Church no Christ hath other manner of punishments for those that are in the Church though now and then Christ doth inflict outward judgments upon them but the main thing that Christ looks at in His Church is To reward with spiritual rewards as righteousness and peace and joy in the holy Ghost and the like so He doth inflict spiritual punishments Those that are professors in the Church naught and vile it may be God may prosper them for a while as well as others outwardly Oh but the punishments of Christ in His kingdom they are spiritual your souls are bound over to eternal death your hearts are hardned your consciences are benum'd and that 's more dreadful wrath a great deal than if the Lord Christ should punish your bodies or take away your estates those are punishments in Christs providential Kingdom but the penalties as Christ is the King of the Church they are ever spiritual punishments which we should more fear and tremble at a great deal Thus the kingdom of Christ is not of this world Now I should have shewed you how this kingdom of Jesus Christ will certainly prevail in the world let the world do what they can In the 2 d Psal Yet have I set My King upon My holy Hill It will at length prevail over all the world and bring under all the kingdoms of the world to it but when it hath done so then there shall be a new world Certainly there is a time that Christ shall have the kingdoms of this world to reign over them in another manner than now He hath and that is at the end of the world I will give you a Scripture or two about that Revel 11. 15. The seventh Angel sounded and there were great voices in Heaven saying The Kingdoms of this world are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ and He shall reign for ever and ever That is He shall subdue the kingdoms that were of this world and then He shall reign He shall reign for ever and ever Now they are the kingdoms of this world but when He reigns it is in this manner that is here spoken of it is in another world as appears in Heb. 2. 5. For unto the Angels hath He not put in subjection the world to come whereof we speak Here the Apostle shews that Christ is above the Angels for he hath not put in subjection the world to come unto the Angels therefore there is a world to come wherein Christ shall have a further dominion than yet he hath and Adam was a type of Jesus Christ in this Adam he had the command of this present world Now in this world Christ doth rule but in the midest of his Adversaries but there is a time coming that Christ shall have all under him as Adam in his innocency had the whol world under his feet And Christ doth promise unto his people in the 3. of Revel 21. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my Throne even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his Throne Mark it seems there is a Throne of Christ yet that hath not been for here 's a promise that he will set them upon his Throne as he sits upon his Fathers Throne Now Christ rules together with his Father but saith he You that are my Saints and my Subjects now you shall sit upon my Throne I but you will say That is in Heaven in Heaven indeed the Saints shall reign Nay It connot be meant of a kingdom wherein the Saints shall sit eternally with Christ in Heaven I might give you many Scriptures for that but I will only give you one Scripture 1 Cor 15. 28. And when all things shall be subdued unto Him then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him that God may be All in All. Here he tells us that there is a time that God shall be All in All both unto Christ and unto His Saints yea and you shall find in this chapter that Jesus Christ shall give up the kingdom unto the Father speaking of the time of the resurrection When all shall rise again and when that shall come the kingdom shall be delivered up unto the Father so that this is a time before the general resurrection that Christ shall sit upon the Throne there is yet a time between this and the Saints being in Heaven when the Saints shall sit upon Christs Throne as he upon his Fathers in another manner than now they do Therefore surely Christ shall have the kingdoms of this world subdued unto him in another manner than yet he hath and for the proof of it do but reade the 7 th chapter of the book of Daniel and you shall find abundant of proof there shall be abundant deal of glory in that kingdom of his there he shall have attendants to purpose thousand thousands administred unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Christ and though there was a Judgment and the Books were brought yet its apparant afterwards that the Scripture speaks of a time that should be before the Saints should come to Heaven for he saith this That as concerning the rest of the Beasts they had their Dominion taken away yet their lives were prolonged for a season Therefore it is not meant at that time when the