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A94749	A synopsis, or, Short view of essential Christianity in part, in which the first fruits unto God, (or saints) in the Apostles dayes lived. : According to the doctrine of Christ ... : With some explications or enlargements thereupon. : Tending to the edification, comfort, and refreshing of all sorts of people ... / By William Tomlinson ...	Tomlinson, William.	1684 (1684)	Wing T1853; ESTC R185375	44,494	110

tremble at his word your Brethren that hated you that cast you out for my names sake said let the Lord be glorifyed but he shall appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed This is encouragement to those humble ones whose Hearts stand in awe before the Lord not willing to be lead of any against the leadings of the Lord or to subject themselves to that which is contrary to the teachings of the Lord in them though they be therefore despised and cast out by their Brethren And it may also be a caution unto others to teach them to take heed how they hate and cast out of their esteem the poor and humble in Spirit upon the account of any outward formality For what hast thou to doe to judge thy Brother or to set at nought thy Brother for any outward observation or formality Whereas thou canst not tell whether Christ our Lord doth lay it upon him or not Behold we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ One man keeps a day to the Lord another keeps not a day two contrary things Canst thou believe that these two contrary things may both be done in obedience to the Lord at his requirings Surely they may or else I judge that Paul would no● have defended them both against eac● other and have judged nothing but their judging of one another in such case Therefore Men and Brethren whosoever loveth our Lord Jesus Christ and his Government lay aside all emulation and wrath and disesteem of one another for such things and learn to love one another though you be not of the same stature one with another even as Christ hath loved us and doth love us and feed us in several pastures And learn what this means in my Fathers House are many mansions or dwellings that so you may not despise one another An Appendix concerning Faith BEcause Faith is so Essential to a Christian and comprehends as I may say the very substance of the Gospel in so much that all Christianity is sometimes expressed under that very word of Faith as Gal. 1.23 Rom. 1.5 c. Therefore it is here a little further insisted upon partly by way of recapitulation holding forth 1. The foundation of Faith layd out of us in the love and mercy and Truth of God and in the sufferings and resurrection of Christ 2. The Work and Fruits of it in us by the Spirit First The foundation and ground of Faith that must of necessity be something not out of us which is to be believed Therefore that thing is the material thing to be published or preached among men for the begetting of Faith For the understanding must be opened to understand it before one can believe it Therefore Philip opened the understanding of the Eunuch in the Scriptures concerning Christ and then he believed And Christ he opened the understandings of the two Disciples that were going to Emaus when their Faith was shaken concerning him that they might understand the Scriptures And so the Apostles when they preached the Gospel of Salvation still they opened the things to be believed by the Scriptures that so those whose Heart God was pleased to open might see what a sure ground there was layd in God and in Christ for men to believe on him For our Salvation or our life is hide with Christ in God The foundation of all is in God in his kindness in his love in his mercy And therefore all glory redounding from thence ascends unto God This is that which makes us truely to glorify God in our Hearts and Spirits when we see him the foundation of all the beginner and finisher of all That takes a man off his Pharisaical exaltation in himself arising from his own righteousness Oh how humbly did the Apostles of our Lord give all glory and honour unto the kindness and mercies and love of God manifested to us in Christ Jesus In all their Epistles to the Saints raising up their mindes to the great love of God in christ Jesus For he was the Vessel filled with the love of God to convey it to us And this was the glory which his Disciples beheld in him We beheld his glory full of grace and truth Joh. 1. Grace is good will kindness love mercy this is Gospel this is the glad tydings which came by Jesus Christ The Law came by Moses but grace and Truth by Jesus Christ This love of God revealed in us by his Spirit is the Rock of ages and while we live and walk in that we live in God for God is love This was Israels Rock while they continued in his love and he lead him and instructed him and kept him as the Apple of his Eye until he waxed fat and kicked and lightly esteemed the Rock of his Salvation as Moses sets forth in his Song Deut. 32. And Hannah in her Song 1 Sam. 2. And David in his Song 2 Sam. 2. likewise Psal 62. saith he truely my Soul waiteth upon God from him cometh my Salvation He only is my Rock and my Salvation several times doth he repeat those words in that short Psalm and then saith ver 8. Trust in him at all times ye People pour out your Heart before him God is a refuge for us Selah Surely men of low degree are vanity and men of high degree are a lye so neither of them are to be trusted to though a man be exalted as high as Heaven above all called Gods or above all Earthly powers yet he is but a lye and not to be trusted to Therefore to be built upon a man is but to be built upon a lye But to be built upon the Revelation of the love of God in Christ Jesus there 's the Rock That was the Rock that Christ would build his Church upon Vpon this Rock will I build my Church saith he to Peter What was that upon Peter No he was Petrus so named from the Fathers revealing of his Son to him which was Petra the Rock upon which Peter himself was built and the Church in all ages Matt. 16.16 17 18 19. And in that Revelation of the Son of God by the Father and in his power and presence there stands the power of binding and loosing which also was given to any two or three of the Church as well as to Peter Mat. 18.18 19 20. by vertue of the presence of him with them who is truth and is no lye For that 's given as the reason both of that power of binding and loosing transgressions and also of that power and prevalency of the prayers of two or three concurring with one accord to ask any thing of God Why For saith he where two or three are gathered together eis to onoma emon into my name there am I in the midst of them ver 20. Here is the infallible Rock and foundation not Peter as a man and therefore lest any should take him to be the infallible foundation the Lord suffered him to slide sometimes

more then we read of the other Apostles in so much that he called him Satan saying to him quickly after he had called him Peter or a Rock or a Stone get thee behinde me Satan we finde not that he ever said such a word to any of the rest except Judas whom he said was a Devil one of you is a Devil Therefore Peter standing in the Revelation of the Father firm in that or upon that Rock he became as a secundary Rock layed upon the chief Corner-stone and so did all the rest of the Apostles and Prophets Eph. 2.20 But Peter standing in the wisdom of the Flesh out of that Revelation of the Father he was an offence and no better then Satan and to be rejected and cast behind the back and so is every one that stands there namely in the wisdom of the Flesh in opposition to the work of God Peter was no foundation for the Church to be built upon as he was a mutable man but only as he stood in the infallible Counsel and Revelation of the Son of God So he held forth the Rock to others and was dignifyed with the name of the Rock So likewise Christ will put his own name upon others that stand faithfull to him as he writ to the Church of Philadelphia Rev. 3.12 Him that overcometh will I make a Pillar in the Temple of my God and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the City of my God and my new name And so Peter was dignifyed with the name Petrus or Petros from Petra which was the true Rock in all ages because he professed him from the revelation of the Father Whom say ye that I am saith Christ Thou art the Son of the living God saith Peter Here was the Rock or foundation the Corner-stone Petra As all the Scriptures testify and from hence he was called Petros but in Satans work he was called Satan Therefore the Spirit he stood in gives the denomination So likewise concerning others Herod in his crafty ravenous Spirit was called a Fox So if Peter or the Pope pretending to be Peters Successor shall stand in a destroying Spirit doth not he deserve the name of Apollyon which signifies a destroyer And is not this name justly put upon the King of the destroying Locusts Rev. 9.11 I desire thee whosoever thou art to weigh this well Peter or whoever it is that stands in the Spirit of God which reveales the Son of God and are keept in that God dignifies them with Honourable names such as none knowes but they which receive them On the other hand those that stand in another Spirit have names given accordingly Therefore i'ts a sottish and incongruous thing for men living in one Spirit to challenge a name proper to the contrary How foolish and impertinent is it for men that are as Locusts and Scorpions carrying stings in their Tails wherewith to hurt men who arise out of the smoke of the bottomless pit of mans wisdom and imaginations for them to challenge the name of Christians a name proper to those who standing in the Revelation of God and nature of Christ follow him as innocent Lambs I'ts as discrepant or contrary as for a Wolf or Fox to challenge the name of a Lamb. So for the King of these Locusts these stinging Scorpions for him to go under the name of Christs Vicar and Peters Successor is as contrary as to call Fire Water or Water Fire I'ts to put light for darkness and darkness for light And thereunto belongs a woe Isa 5.20 Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter I have insisted the more upon this lest men should misse of their expectation and fall short of the comfortable enjoyment of the Kingdom of God in building upon the Sands and not upon the true Rock Another thing to be considered and which was published by the Apostles to beget faith was the sufferings and resurrection of Christ This also was done without us we have no hand in it And this also was from the love of God God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but should have eternal life And what did God give him to do for us One thing was to bear our sins He became sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the rightousness of God in him 2 Cor. 5.21 that is he bare our sins in his own body and suffered for them that we by faith in him might be cloathed with Gods righteousness or with the love and mercy of God For that 's it which being received by faith is called Gods righteousness Now tho the foundation for Faith be layd out of us in the good will and love of God in Christ Jesus and in his sufferings and resurrection yet the work of Faith that 's wrought in us by the Spirit of God for it s he that opens the Heart of man to believe his love Sin shuts up the Heart of man against the Lord and is as it were a bolt against him Therefore to take away that bolt and to make way for the opening of the door Christ suffered He bare our sins in his own body on the Tree to make way for man to conceive the love of God in Christ And that 's not all I'ts the entrance or the beginning of Faith which he follows by the operation of his Spirit in us washing our consciences by the Blood of Christ and so giving boldness through him to draw near to God and to come to him as a Father and thus by degrees the Lord makes his entrance into the Hearts of the Sons of men that they may become the Sons of God He living in them and they living in him For his love being received which in very deed is Faith he himself who is love is received and here is begotten a Son to God As many as receive him to them gives he power to become the Sons of God even to them that believe on his name For this is the end of our Faith that God may dwell in us and so renew his image again which through sin hath been defaced That man that pretends faith in Christ and yet lives in the nature or Spirit of the Devil doing his works his Faith is but like the Faith of his Father the Devil whose works he doth The Faith of the Sons and Daughters of God is shown by their Fruits for they work the works of their Father Every Tree is known by its Fruits Now this is the great mystery hid for so many ages and generations which in due time God revealed by his Spirit to the Apostles of Christ Namely Christ to be brought forth in us and this is the hope of glory And the preaching of the first principles of the Doctrine of Christ is but to make