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A41575	An antidote against the common plague of the world, or, An answer to a small treatise (as in water, face answereth to face) intituled Saltmarsh returned from the dead and by transplacing the letters of his name, this is Smartlash : ascend into the throne of equity, for the arraignment of false interpretours of the word of God : summoned out of all ages to appear, under the penalty of death, challenging the consent, or forbidding to gainsay the common approved priesthood of this age.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1305; ESTC R24349	253,337	351

by Iebusie who when David was made King in Hebron he and all Israel went unto Iebusie which is Ierusalem which resisted David saying Thou shale not come in hither 1 Chron. 11. 4. 2 Sam. 5. 6. So also Ierusalem is called Iebusie when the land is divided unto the sons of Israel Ioshuah 15. 8. and by that name falls in the inheritance of Benjamin in whose lot the Temple was built Ioshua 18. 28. which is a Temple destroyed into which Christ never carne and a Temple reedified wherein Christ stands and preacheth Luke 4. 16 -22 of which Moses the man of God prophecies when he saith The Lord shall cover him all the day speaking of Benjamin and between his shoulders that is in the midst of the Coasts of his Land the Lord shall abide and dwell in his Temple Deut. 33. 12. So also when that Levite who sojourned on the side of Mount Ephraim fetched home his Concubine it is said they came over against Iebus which is Ierusalem which is then said to be a City of Strangers and not of the children of Israel Iedg 19. 10. 11. 12. We conclude therefore that Ierusalem is to be understood in a diverse respect according to the mind of the Scripture and that according to a reall state and condition in both for it is to be taken in that order and constitution of blessedness and peace according to that order and place of aboad of our Melchizedeck who hath his Kingdom and Priesthood there Gen 14. 18. for Salem is Ierusalem and so the Chaldees paraphrase reads that place of the Psalmist Psalm 76. 2. Jerusalem is also to be taken as it is constituted ordered or inhabited after the manner and according to the state of the curse as it is built and inhabited by the Iebusites who are of Iebus who is of Canaan who is of Cham the cursed Gen. 10. 15. 16. Gen. ● 25. Ierusalem then in this place together with her children according to Christs true intent is to be taken in the accursed state of the Iebusites Enemies to Israel as it is constituted ordered and inhabited by her proper off-spring of false and counterfeit interpreters even as the sons of men do erect constitute order and possesse the Cities and affairs of this world namely for their glory benefit safety and peace by advancing all honourable thing according to mans account in the disparadgement debasing and abandoning all things of shame discommodity and danger so far as mans wisdome in their constitution can find out with the exercising and executing their laws and edicts accordingly Even so this City and Temple of these accursed Iebusites it erects and possesseth it it self by the advancing and promoting of all things acceptable in the eyes of mans wisdom with contempt and despising of all things which might impair or any way abate the glory and lustre thereof which cannot be maintained but by debasing and despising the Spirit of God whose propertie is to blast and to wither as grasse and as the flower of the field all things set up and consisting in whatsoever that perisheth in the use thereof as all humane institutions do if ever the spirit of the Lord breath upon them they wither and come to nought where such things then are the things chiefly maintained we may safely say that the Spirit of the Lord never breathed there Isaiah 40. 6. which are the only things that false Interpreters promote and erect amongst men in the world It is not without cause therefore that Christ ingeminates upon this word Jerusalem Oh Jerusalem Jerusalem most emphatically declaring thereby that false Interpretation is cruell and accursed both in the Mother and in the Children in the Root and in all the Branches these are accursed in their Fathers who murthered the spirit of the Prophets and their Fathers are accursed in them that do the same things that spirit which is the originall and ground of their interpretation is accursed and cruell and all the fruits that flow therefrom are cruelty and accursed Oh Ierusalem yee carnally constituted and moment any Churches Oh Jerusalem yee carnally instructed Members made great of flesh Ezek. 16. 26. Ezek. 23. 19. 20. Oh Jerusalem the Mother of false Interpreters as she is in bondage with her children by the works of the Law and in all things ingendreth thereunto Now the erecting of the curse in this City is the same with the setting of it up in Canaan the son of Cham and father of Jebus Noah having planted a Vineyard after the Flood which had swept away all Cains posterity from the face of the Earth as such as have not a being in order to the new Heavens and the new Earth wherein dwels righteousnesse 2 Pet. 3. 13. yet is the curse conserved in the Ark in that spirit of the unclean Raven as well as the blessing is in that spirit of the Dove for the work of God as well as the word of God hath its operation in way of death as well as in the way of life 2 Cor. 2. 15. 16. for death springs up and revives through the resurrection of Christ in the wicked as really as life springs up and revives through his death in the godly and yet there is no savour of life in the wicked nor any savour of death in the just and this conservation of Cham in the Ark who is of Noah and so of Enoch in the destruction of all Cains posterity in the Flood is to declare that neither the blessing nor the curse is tyed or entailed to any naturall and carnall generation according to mans judgement but God hath mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will he hardneth Rom. 9. 10-18 But it is said that Noah drinks of the fruit of the Vine unto drunkennesse Gen. 9. 20. 21. we know that the spirit of God alludes there unto naturall drunkennesse in the stupifying of the senses through excesse of strong drink and deny not but that holy man might take liberally of the very fruit of a naturall Vine to the obstruction of the use of naturall reason as it is in the time of sleep but we affirm that God teacheth a higher thing hereby which is Gods proper intent as the Apostle affirms concerning the care of God in not mussing the mouth of the Oxe that treadeth out the Corn 1 Cor. 9. 9. 10. God therein takes care for men and not for beasts according to the true scope and intent So God in Noah teacheth what the death of Christ is personated in Noah and not what taking away of mans naturall sense is by strong drink which is common to a beast as well as man so that as out of a deep sleep in Adam a woman is brought forth that is not only the way of mans propagation and preservation on the Earth but also one who through deceit brings in the fall and death so out of this drunkennesse and sleep of Noah there is not only the blessing of Shem and

and the adjunct being but one yea even the Son of God is made vain and empty to the end he may fill all things and is made nothing that he may substantiate all things for so much is in those words translated he was made of no reputation that is he was made vain empty nothing as the word signifies that is he is nothing in point of the spirit and life in the wicked that they may be filled with horrour mortality and wrath and he is nothing in point of the flesh and glory of man in the godly that they may be filled with the fulnesse of God in immortality and eternal life and peace and so much for present concerning the word Abel together with the adjunct righteous Abel The second point concerns the manner of this fact of murthering the Prophets which either aggravates or extenuates an act and that is said to be from blood to blood that is from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharia By Abels blood here that is his slaughter we are to understand the sacrifice for which he was slain for Cain slew him for the goodnesse of his work or offering 1 Iohn 3. 12. now we know that Christ is the sacrifice offered as really as he is the Sacrificer that offers it therefore in Abel he is said to be a Lamb slain from the beginning Rev. 13. 8. also our Apostle affirms that Christ our Passeover is Sacrificed for us 1 Cor. 5. 7. where he concludes him to be the Sacrifice so that the slaughter of Abel is the unnaturall murthering of the true offering or that illegall enmity which Cain hath against Christ being brought in as the only acceptable thing unto God for he that hates his brother is a Murtherer and we know that no Murtherer hath eternall life abiding in him 1 Iohn 3. 15. For Abel bringing the firstling of the Flock which is the first-born of God not at Cain was the prime according to the judgment of the flesh as one judged who the Apostle saith was deceived 2 Cor. 11. 3. But he is the first born or he that opens the womb of eternall generation and true off-spring of God to appear in mankind and that by emptying man of all humane and temporary glory and excellencies to be filled and replenished with the glory of God only in the excellencies of his holy Spirit in all the operations thereof and the nature of that firstling Cain could never abide who is that first-born after the flesh and judgment of humane wisdome who builds Cities and severall Orders and Institutions calling them by the name given to his Son to glorifie himself in an Off-spring of mortall and carnall things Gen. 4. 17. calling this City Enoch or according to the Hebrew Chanoch that is catechised instructed or dedicated as the same posterity do at this day set up new forms and orders of Religion as Monuments to declare unto men that they are the initiaters into Religion and the only Chatechizers and Instructers of the World so as the posterity to come must keep their order and walke only in their steps as Cain made provision for his Son so to do Again Christ is not only made vain according to all carnall things in this his offering in his whole and intire mysticall body but also he becomes bereaved of all things of the spirit in wicked men who are void of all the operations thereof that so the depths of Satan may take place which is as much as to say the Creator and giver of life and being to all things is become death as also in that way of Christ that the Creature is become eternall life which can have no other sound in a carnall ear but as though the Creator were dead and the Creature become God which Cain in all his Off-spring could never indure to hear of neither of the one nor of the other for in the one the glory of man is consumed as the grasse Isaiah 40. 6. which humane wisdome can never indure and in the other stands the shame of Satan in the quenching of all the fruits of the spirit which the pride of man can never indure but utterly denies both the one and the other to be the true Off-spring and Sacrifice of the Son God yea rejects and contemns and is in enmity against them both which enmity is the slaughter of the Son of God as he hath given himself to be this firstling offered for the redemption of his chosen ones for he that hates his brother kils him 1 Iohn 3. 15. as well as he that lookes upon a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her in his heart already Mat. 5. 28. even so he that hath enmity against the sacrifice of God he hath strangled it in his heart already and not taken away the blood according to Gods order and appointment which is one of those great and unsufferable abominations of the world Acts ●5 20. 25. joyned with idolatry fornication and bloodshed And thus is Abels blood shed by every false construction and interpretation of that one only and once offered Sacrisice of Christ by such as wander therein according to the way of Cain Jude 11. even the men of the World those first-born of Egypt in regard of wealth honour and humane learning who would make men beleeve thereby that they are the first-born of Israel who bring earthly momentany and transient fruits unto God as an acceptable Sacrifice as Cain did therefore they rest not in their enmity against and deniall of the true sacrifice as that Lamb slain from the beginning but they proceed also to the taking away of the life of the Sacrificer who offers the Sacrifice wherein observe that Christ is as really the Priest that offers as he is the Sacrifice offered therfore he is said to be our high Priest as well as our Passeover Heb. 2. 17. Heb. 3. 1. Heb. 4. ●4 Therefore the blood of the Priest is brought in upon the same account against them who slew Abel that they have also slain Zachariah the son of Barachiah as being that holy Prophet and Priest of God the cause and manner of whose death is recorded in that second of Chronicles Chapter twenty four So that whosoever he be that dislikes and contemns the true and reall Sacrifice offered unto God he also contemns the true Priest and Sacrificer yea whosoever is officiated by the spirit of God to be exercised in and about the offering up of the same That Christ is a Priest and the only and alone Priest in all ages is most evident where it is said the Lord hath sworn and will not repent saying Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedeck Psalm 110. 4. compared with Hebrews 7. 1. 2. 3. verses see also Hebrews 7. 15. 16. 17. Yea he is our high Priest in point of offering all true Sacrifice as well as the Captain of our salvation to lead us on into all conquest

them in all particulars and upon as reall and substantiall grounds as we can give for the appearing of the day and succeeding of the night or as we can give the reason why we eat why we drink why we sleep marry and give in marriage without which things man can neither multiply nor tarry upon the face of the Earth and we know the nature of all things that God reveals unto us as well as we know the nature of the fire by putting a finger into it either the things of Satan in that body of sin as we dye unto it and it is dead to us or the things of God in Christ as we live to them and they live in us and such are our imaginations And for our wandring from Mountain to Hill we do professe our selves to be gone from that rigid and mountainous power and pride of Pharaoh under which in a Figure you now are three dayes journey a perfect and perpetuall departure therefrom into that Wildernesse that is waylesse of the tracts of Pharaoh and his Host else we had not come to Sinai or Horeb that hill of God where he calls us up to converse with him in the height of his own Son where we meekly receive that law of the spirit in the laver of the People yea that fiery law that borns up all combustible and corruptible matter in us purifying and trying our faith as silver is tryed in the fire We also are gone from that Mount with the Ark of God and law therein three dayes journey to seek a resting place for the Ark which is a perfect and perpetuall removall from the place of the giving and receiving the law of the flesh the earnall commandement in all the terrours fears effects and operations thereof or else we had never come to Mount Zion the Hill which God doth love and where he will dwell for ever where glorious things are spoken in that City of God for in Iudah is God known his name is great in Israel at Salem is his Tabernacle and his dwelling place in Zion and there he breaks the Arrowes of the Bow the Shield and the Sword and the Battel Selah Yea there is he more glorious and puissant than the Mountains of prey even than all the Host of Sennac●arib which compasse about Ierusalem thinking to make a prey and a booty thereof but it becomes a heavy stone and a cup of trembling beyond all their expectations unto them Whereas you say the meek and lowly Spirit is not of this World but bears vvitnesse against it we freely own it so to be and that you bear vvitnesse also unto the life in the measure given you vvhich is eternall and therefore seems to be immeasurable for he receives not the spirit by measure we do heartily rejoyce in any that God stirs up to testifie to his truth inthat verity of his word and life and light of his Son which is to us as lise from the dead knowing it to be as honourable an office as ever a Saint can attain unto to be that faithful and true witnesse only found in the Son of God who only is an eye and ear witness of all the doings of the father and therfore he only can give true testimony and a just account of them which we count to be as great a Crown and royall diadem unto our selves to hear as to be inabled to speak thereof and therefore can freely suffer our own eclipse for ever so that the splendent brightnesse of that Sun of righteousnesse may break forth and have its proper place seat and course being made marvelous in his Saints even in all that beleeve so as it may be said with admiration suitable to such an Aspect Who is this that looks forth as the morning fair as the Moon cleer as the Sun terrible as an Army with Banners A true witnesse is truly honourable being one who only can give true testimony of the state of all things so as true judgement passeth to give every thing its due without which there is no righteousnesse on the Earth He only can witnesse against the world concerning the nature of their act in crucifying the Lord of glory whom they know not for they that know him never do it and onely they which can witnesse what it is to take away and destroy such a life and to put out such a light they only can witnesse what that light and life is in all such in whom it appears namely what the eternall and everlasting Sonship is which is that which is in time as well as that which is eternall which being gathered into one by that spirit of eternity it is made one state or incorporation wherein all the severall and various relations therein consist of and are become a spiritual and an eternal law which gives unto it self an orderly being and form in all its operations which operations offices are known onely by that name which is writ upon them which is that particular power and authority they carry in them and expresse and this is such as none can read but himself and he is called the Word of God which word is the law of the spirit of life and this life is the light of men and this light gives a true form unto all things which it testifies unto therefore it is said by the Lord unto Iob Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes or caused the day-spring to know his place that it might take hold of the ends of the Earth that the wicked may be shaken out of it it is turned as clay to the Seal and they stand as a garment but from the wicked their light is with-holden and the high arm shall be broken So that this true light lights us up to see the Son of God as being of twain made one for in what respect soever he appears there is a true relation considerable in it or else it is not that Son of God the Saviour or salvation of the world for he is of twain made one new man in which is the Vnity as also the fellowship of the Gospell in all things for there is nothing in Christ without its proper relative and without relation the word or law of God is not as in creation the thing made as well as the thing making in knowledge the thing known in love the thing beloved in a Father the respect to a Son in a Husband the respect to a wife which gives to each other their proper being so as if one cease the relative ceaseth also from being such So that if I witnesse to the Son word light life Law or peace of God I must witnesse unto the being of such a thing that such a thing it is as also to the manner of its being how it comes to be such a thing together with its necessary and proper operations which must inevitably accompany such a manner of being with the comprehensions extensions of such operations and motion or