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A86560	A caveat to all true Christians against the spreadings of the spirit of Antichrist, and his subtile endeavours to draw men from Jesus Christ / propounded to them by J. Horn, one of the unworthiest of Christs servants in his gospel, a preacher thereof in South Lin, Norfolk ; together with some brief directions for their orderly walkings.	Horn, John, 1614-1676.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1651 (1651)	Wing H2796; ESTC R42677	162,184	341

they are all one in him according to the Spirit however different according to the flesh yea a●cording to the Spirit they are Sion the belove City the Kingdom and Temple of God and b● and his glory appertaineth to them and is the●… portion O Israel happy thou a people saved 〈◊〉 the Lord Glorious things are spoken of thee th● City of God the most high in the midst of thee 〈◊〉 shall exalt and establish thee and delight in th● for ever for this is Sion whom no man regardeth the place and habitation that God hath chosen in which he will dwell and rest for ever because he hath loved and desired it Consider this O ye Saints and let your hearts rejoyce in his that made you in him that called you and made you in Christ Jesus and blessed you in him with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things according as in him he chose you before the worlds foundations and be joyful in your King in Jesus the King of Saints that dwels and rules amongst you and in whom ye are exalted to all this high condition This state of glory and perfection in Christ Jesus given you should be minded by you to out ballance and chear you up against the state of frailty and imperfection experimented in your selves for this like the stone cut out of the Mountains without hands shall dash in pieces and swallow up the other into victory When that state of weakness and mortality shall have overcome you in the flesh yet shall it again be overcome and abolished by this state of glory and shall never more return upon you Surely friends did we more minde this high state to which we are called and in which in Christ Jesus we are interessed it would make us bear chearfully the present sufferings of this life and love him heartily that hath hitherto advanced us It would lead us to contemn things seen and sensible neither to run out in affecting the good or fearing the evil that in the outwward state is met with by us So have the Saints in other times walked trampling upon Death through the hope of Life and the like of hope in them contemning the pleasures of sin for a season for the enjoyment of this eten happy condition and for the love they bear him that thereto called them But I fear we●… often so taken up with the view of what we 〈◊〉 according to the flesh that we forget what 〈◊〉 are in and according to Christ Jesus whi●… springs from what we come to view in the n●… Consideration Sect. 4. Of the state of Saints in a joynt consideration as sons of Adam in Christ FOr though such is the Christians state as Christ and as a Saint yet in a complex joynt consideration as he is a man in Christ the● appears yet a double imperfection beside what named 1. An imperfection of his Union with Chri●… or in the manner and measure of his being him in his rootedness into Christ in whom 〈◊〉 high estate is A branch of a wilde Olive then● taken out and graffed into a true is by ver● of that insition interessed in the juice sap a●… vertue of the true Olive yet the manner of Union with it may for some time be imperfec●… It is not at first so fast rooted and so firmly un●ted with it as afterward it may be Thence th● Apostle prayed for more rootedness of believ●… into Christ and Christ himself for further Union of believers in him Ephes 3.17,18 Joh. 17.21 Saints perfect in Christ may not be perfectly in Christ their condition admits of growth in this matter they may come to see further into Christ and to attain to greater riches of assurance of understanding and so grow stronger in faith and love and have their roots deeplier struck into him cleave to him with fuller purpose and resolution The more they know his Name the more they trust in him and their calling to him and election in him made firmer and they further out of danger of falling from him 2 Pet. 1.5.10 Yea as they grow more one with him so they have a more wide and abundant entrance administred into his Kingdom his fulness flows more out into them and they become more comprehensive of him In this regard is that difference amongst Saints that was ●oted in the beginning Some babes in understanding and weak in faith easilier shaken and perverted from the simplicity in him more unstable being less united with the root and so not so much receiving in its sap and these as they are more tenderly to be dealt with and nursed up so they are also to be exhorted to diligence in attending to the Word of Grace and to let go such evil humors brought with and yet retained by them as might clog them and hinder their further growing in and faster uniting unto Jesus such as those things named 1 Pet 2.1 Malice Envy Guile Hypocrisie c. that so coveting after the sincere milk of the Word they may grow up thereby be more rooted and built up in Christ abound in his Work and be kept from falling Others are more firme grown more empty of themselves and fuller of faith and confidence in him and singleness of heart toward him for whom there is greater cause of rejoycing as being in the less danger of m●ssing the full injoyment of their spiritual estate to which they are called yet even they also may and are still to be growing up into Christ and to faster union with him for which cause also the Saints are compacted into a body that they by what every joynt supplies from the head may grow up more into the head they being not as yet so perfect as that they can grow no more In this regard it was partly that Paul judged himself not perfect nor to have attained but pressed on counting all things loss and dung that he might win Christ and be found in him Phil. 3 8,9,13,14 He had him not enough yet nor was yet so fast in him that nothing in that regard could be added to him as also ●n another sense which follows he with other Saints acknowledged their imperfection viz. 2. In regard of attainment to an injoyment of the fulness of Christ and their estate in Christ through union with him in regard of the possession or comprehension of it and the effects and fruits of it And there are two Branches in that 1. Their injoyment of the fulness into which they are estated their possession of it they have not yet all that joy and happiness that sight of God that vast possession of life in themselves to which they are called they have not yet attained the resurrection of the dead as it is to be injoyed the greatest part of the possession of this estate is reserved till their race be run their fight accomplished the prize obtained 2 Tim. 4.8 Here we have a time of suffering with Christ the glory is for the main of it reserved as to

word before he was made flesh here the person neither was nor is the word There was Death according to the flesh so there is in the Saint but not so here as there for Christ died to take away Sin and was made an offering for sin but not so the Saint the Saint dies because of sin in him according to the flesh that being quickened in the Spirit he might more gloriously live to God but his Death in the flesh makes no expiation for sin nor is he the propitiation for any others therein He also rises again with Christ but not for such end as Christ he rose for our Justification but not we for any others but to enjoy the benefit of that that we have in him yea in this also there is another vast difference between Christ and the Saints that in the Saints are these three things 1. The substance of man consisting of body and soul 2. The flesh old man or sinfull disposition in them and 3. The Spirit or new man that lusts against that flesh but now in Christ though there was flesh of Adam and that subjected to infirmity because of our sins and Spirit or divine nature as the word of God yet in him there was no sinfull disposition no guile was found in his mouth nor was sin in that regard of inherency ever known to him in that he died it was for our sin the chastisement of our peace was laid upon him and through his stripes we are healed Isa 53.5 To say nothing that he is the Head also and the Saints his members and not the head He the Advocate for them the Great high-priest above them and over them they his house and people in which there is evident distinction between him and them and dissimilitude which as well as the similitude is to be minded diligently that we err● not But to return to the estate of the Saints according to that twofold consideration in which there is resemblance viz. as of Adam and as in Christ Sect. 2. Of the state of Saints as in the flesh COnsider my Brethren that though ye be Saints yet ye have still a relation in your persons to the first Adam you have yet a fleshly earthly substance made of the dust and that must go to the dust again an humane soul also breathed in of God to animate that earthly substance and this in your naturall and animal being which is neither of the essence of your Saintship nor yet annihilated by it you are Saints not by carnall earthly generation but by divine and heavenly Calling of God and by your insition into Christ the holy one who unto us is made of God wisdom righteousness holiness and redemption And you that are thus called and thus made Saints are yet according to your visible and natural substance and subsistence sons of Adam mortal men and women and according to this view and consideration acknowledge your selves in the flesh yet in a state of great weakness and imperfection both in regard of mortality and Death reigning in your members filling you with aches pains faintness weariness sicknesses till you be brought down to the dust of Death to which you also are appointed with other men it being the portion and lot of men as men and so of the Saints also as they are men as also in regard of sin the corrupt and cursed principle of flesh within you not wholly as yet outed by grace though conquered and put under and fastened to the crosse that it might be destroyed it hath yet such an existence in your flesh and nature that it much clouds the minde in seeing the things of the Spirit much dulls the heart in and withdraws the affections from the cleaving to and eager pursuit after them yea subjects you to uncomly unsaintly practises and behaviors in your walkings mingling your prayers with mistakes diffidence impatience dulness your minds with worldly earthly affections your walkings one to another with uncharitableness passions offences rashness c. though this flesh is in some more mortified in some less in some shews it self more one way in some another some are more covetous then others some more uncharitable some more passionate c. and this is found in Saints as they are sons of Adam they inherit from him by Nature their earthly substance with its infirmities weaknesses corruption and sinfulness Not to mention that according to this consideration there are among Saints many external differences as of male female young old rich poor Ruler Subject Master Servant Jew Gentile English Scotch Dutch French c. all which with many other like distinctions and differences in the flesh their grace or saintship doth not annihilate nor are they therewith to be confounded nor are they or their infirmities of sin or frailty to be wholly disregarded as if there were no such things in them or incident to them● Such their state after the flesh is a state of imperfection Sect. 3. Of their state after the Spirit BUt then according to their spiritual Being as born of God and as in Christ and so as Saints there their condition is far otherwise In Christ they are compleate Col. 2.10 He their Head and the root of their Saintship is altogether perfect and absolute in him no death no sorrow no crying no infirmity pain sickness mortality no sin corruption or corrupt weakness Old things are passed away behold all things are become new 2 Cor. 5.17 He is altogether holy righteous wise spiritual divine immortal the Elect of God the Son and Heir of God in whom dwels all the fulness of God yea of the Godhead bodily So that there is no defect or want in him for them either of life wisdome righteousness holiness glory or of any thing good for them He is a place of broad Rivers and Streams in which they may swimm and their estate as in him is a state of great glory and perfection comming unto him ye are come to sonship to life to immortality to righteousness to redemption and whatever may conduce to or advance your happiness and being in him ye are all this A new creature partakers of Christ a chosen generation a Royal Priesthood an holy Nation Kings and Priests unto God members of Christ and in and with him called Christ because anointed with the same holy Unction and to the same glory and dignity only in subordination to him as the members to the head the younger brethren to the first-born among many brethren for in all things he is the first and hath the preheminence And as thus looked upon and considered in the Spirit ye are above sickness weakness sin c. they have no room o● place in this new state or condition Nor is the● herein any distinction of male female master servant bond free rich or poor but all in Chri●… are one new man according to this spiritual being righteousness sonship holiness with a● the priviledges of Christ are alike their portion