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A cabinet of jewels, or, A glimps [sic] of Sions glory written by William Dyer ...
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Dyer, William, d. 1696.
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They are redeemed from amongst men Eighthly They bring their first fruits unto God and to the Lamb. Ninthly And in their mouthes was found no guile for they are without fault before the Throne of God O how holy how heavenly how gracious how glorious how lovely and spiritual are these they live in the Lord on the Lord to the Lord and with the Lord They are a chosen Generation a Royal Priesthood an holy Nation a peculiar people 1 Pet. 2.9 Thirdly By their Spirit They have another spirit Num. 14.24 All the Lambs followers are in the spirit of the Lamb Rom. 8.9 16. And by that spirit they are led and taught a spirit of holiness a spirit of meekness a spirit of love a free spirit and a true humble and faithful spirit to and for the Lord. Now as the Lambs followers are in the spirit of the Lamb so the Beasts followers are in the spirit of the Beast which is no other then the spirit of the Devil Eph. 2.2 According to the Prince of the power of the Air the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience a spirit of Lording and domineering a spirit of cunning and craftiness a spirit of Deceit a spirit of Superstition a spirit of persecution and cruelty and in this spirit are all the followers of the Beast Now by this you may know the Lambs followers from the Beasts followers Fourthly By their name They have another name A new name Rev. 3.12 God gives his people honourable Titles though the Beast giveth them reproachful Titles God calls them The dearly beloved of his soul Jer. 12.7 And The Apple of his eye Zech. 2.8 And His Jewels Mal. 3.17 His Glory his Portion his Bride his Friends and Children But the Beast calls them Seditious Hereticks Deceivers and Deluders Blasphemers and Fools and Mad-men as if they were not worthy to have a being amongst men But though they are Ravens in the Worlds eye yet they are Doves in Gods eye yea they are such Worthies Of whom this world is not worthy Heb. 11.38 Now dear Christians by this you may know the Lambs followers from others by the Nick-names the world giveth them and by the glorious names that God giveth them Fifthly by their Graces they may be known Such as are the Lambs followers are full of faith full of love full of grace and goodnesse they are very fruitful and bring forth much fruit John 15. They are called Heaven because of their heavenlinesse Rom. 8.1 And holy because of their holinesse spiritual because of their spiritualness and faithful because of their faithfulnesse There is much of God to be seen in them in their words works duties and conversations Phil. 3.20 For our conversation is in Heaven They seek Heavenly things and walk by a Heavenly Rule they eye Heavenly objects and are lead by a Heavenly Spirit they submit to a Heavenly Government and imitate Heavenly ones there is much of Heaven in them and much of them in heaven When I awake I am still with thee saith David But now the Beasts followers they are full too but it is with blould and swearing cursing stealing lying blaspheming rebellion and all manner of abominations and filthinesse Hos 4.2 Rom. 3. Rev. 13. Now Beloved by this you may know Christs precious ones from the Beasts filthy ones Sixthly The Lambs followers may be known from the Beasts followers by their keeping the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus Rev. 14.12 Here is the patience of the Saints here are they that keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus So Rev. 12.17 The Dragon was wroth with the Woman and made war with the remnant of her seed which keep the Commandments of God having the Testimony of Jesus Christ True Believers cleave to the Lord and follow him fully But my servant Caleb hath followed me fully Numb 14.24 And Enoch walked with God Gen. 5.24 And Noah walked with God Gen. 6.9 Let us also walk in the Spirit Gal 5.25 And they follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth they hear his voice they professe his worship and obey his doctrine they obhor Antichrist they follow not the Beast nor receive his mark but keep their beautiful garments of Gospel innocency and will not touch beastly Babylon Seventhly By their Company The Lambs followers keep company together Being let go they went to their own company Acts 4.23 So they are said to stand upon a Sea of Glasse together And I saw as it were a Sea of glass mingled with fire and them that had gotten victory over the Beast and over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name stand on the Sea of Glasse having the harps of God Rev. 15.2 So they that are with the Lamb upon Mount Sion are together and keep together and follow the Lamb together Christs faithfull Witnesses do not hear with Antichrists hearers nor worship with them which worship the Beast for they are come out of Babylon Chap. 18.4 Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues Whereof come out from amongst them and be ye separate and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you saith the Lord 2 Cor. 6.17 The Children of God wil not keep company with the Children of wrath for they cannot agree For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what communion hath light with darknesse and what concord hath Christ with Belial or what part hath he that believeth with an Infidel and what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols 2 Cor. 6.14 15 16. there fore believers keep together walk together worship God together And they that believed were of one heart and one soul continued in the Apostles Doctr. and fellowship Acts 4.32 Acts 2.42 By this the Lambs followers are known to wit by their company Eighthly By their Language they are known True Believers speak the Language of Canaan their Language is Scripture-Language you may know them by their speech as Peter was known by his speech Surely thou art one of them for thy speech bewrayeth thee Mat. 26.73 Their words are holy and heavenly they speak of God and to God and for God and He heareth them Mal. 3.16 But the beasts followers speak wickedly proudly daringly and blasphemously Chap. 13.4 And he opened his mouth blaspheming God his Son his Name his Saints and they that dwell in Heaven verse 6. Men are known who and what they are and to whom they do belong by their Language if they are of God and in God they cannot but speak much of God Ninthly The Lambs followers are known by this They are more afflicted with the Churches heaviness than they are affected with their own happiness The King said why is thy countenance sad this is nothing else but sorrow of heart seeing thou art not sick Why should not my countenance be sad when the City the place of
my fathers lyeth waste and the Gates thereof are consumed with fire Nehem. 2.2 3. How can Sions Sons be rejoycing when their Mother is mourning Though they were the Jews Desolation yet they were Jeremies Lamentation How can such rejoyce in her standing that do not mourn for her falling When the Churches Adversaries make long furrows upon her back we should cast in the seed of tears Remember them that are in bonds as being bound with them and them which suffer adversitie as being your selves also in the body Heb. 13.3 Sympathising with others makes an estate that is joyful more happy and an estate that is doleful less heavy The righteous perish and no man layeth it to heart Isa 5.7 We may draw up that charge against many now Amos 6.46 They lye upon beds of Ivory and stretch themselves upon Couches and eat the Lambs out of the flock and the Calves out of the midst of the stall that drink wine in bowls and anoint them selves with the chief Ointments but they are not grieved for the afflictions of Joseph O that there were not too many such now adays that eat the fat and drink the sweet and are not troubled for Sions troubles Instead of sympathising with them in their misery they are censuring of them for their misery But the true Servants of God are tender and broken-hearted they weep and mourn and wring their hands for Sions sins for Sions Breaches for Sions Calamities for Sions Deliverance and thus they do and will do till they see Sion on Mount Sion with the Lamb to be Tenthly the Lambs followers are known by their love to Christ and sufferings for Christ they chuse the worst of sorrows before they will commit the least of sins For thy sake are we killed all the day long and counted as sheep for the slaughter Psa 44. Rom. 8.36 And ye shall be hated of all men for my Names sake Mat. 10 22. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake Mat. 5.10 Love can walk on the water without drowning and lye in the fire without burning How shall we land at the Haven of rest if we are not tossed upon the Sea of trouble A believer should live above the love of life and the fear of death Though we cannot live without afflictions yet let us live above afflictions None are so welcome to that spiritual Canaan as those that swim to it through the Red Sea of their own bloud In suffering the offence is done to us in sinning the offence is done to God In suffering we lose the favour of men in sinning we lose the favour of God Therefore Daniel chose the Den of the Lion rather than he would forsake the Cause of the Lamb Dan. 6. And the three Chrildren chose rather to suffer sadly than to sin foully Dan. 3. And Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season Heb. 11. â—5 It is better to be a Martyr than a Monarch it is better to be a prisoner for Christ than to be a Prince without Christ or against Christ O how precious how glorious how lovely and how sweet is Jesus Christ to believers O they love him entirely uprightly they love his glorious person and the beauty of his holinesse and his Name his Honour his Cause and his Members they will suffer for him and die for him because he suffered and died for them Rev. 12.11 And they loved not their lives unto the Death Now by this all men may know the Lambs followers from the Beasts followers viz. by their sorrowes and sufferings for Christ for Truth for Righteousness and for Conscience sake Heb. 10.34 And they took joyfully the spoyling of their goods Heb. 11.35 Eleventhly The Lambs followers are known by this They seek the publick good of others above the private good of themselves I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart for I could wish that my self were accursed from Christ for my brethren my Kinsmen according to the flesh Rom. 9.2.3 And now O Father glorifie thy son that thy son may glorifie thee Joh. 17.1 He prayed for glory more for the Fathers sake that bestowed it than for his own sake that received it A true Christian doth not desire grace only for this end that God may glorifie him but he desires grace for this end that he may glorifie God For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich 2 Cor. 8.9 O that the Lord Jesus should not only in pitty save us but in love dye for us And David after he had served his own Generation by the Will of God fell on sleep Acts 13.36 His Generation did not serve him but he served his Generation not the Generation that was before him for they were dead before he was living nor the Generation that was behind him for they were living after he was dead but his own Generation and not by his own will but by the Will of God Old Ely mourned more for the lose of his Religion than for the lose of his Relation 1 Sam. 4.18 So Moses Exo. 32.10 Now therefore let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them and that I may consume them and I wil make of thee a great Nation He was no self-seeker but a life preserver Grace doth not only make a man carry it like a man to God but to carry it like a God to man Reason makes a man a man but grace makes a man a Christian Every gracious spirit is publick though every publick spirit is not gracious As we are not born by our selves so we are not born for our selves But the Beasts followers and Babylons Merchants are for themselves and seek themselves Yea they are greedy Dogs which can never have enough and they are shepherds that cannot undorstand they all look to their own way every one for his gain from his Quarter Isa 56.11 And teaching things they ought not for filthy lucres sake Tit. 1.11 Wo to you Scribes and Pharisees for ye devoure widdows houses and for a pretence make long prayers therefore ye shall receive the great damnation Mat. 23. These make not gain to stoop to Godlinesse but Godlinesse to stoop to gain Twelfthly and Lastly The Lambs followers may be known from the Beasts followers by this They are more for power than form for heart than Art for matter than method for substance than shew Having a form of Godlinesse but denying the power thereof from such turn away 2 Tim 3.5 As they who have the power of Godliness cannot deny the form so they who have the form of Godliness should not deny the power Alas what is hearing without doing and praying without practising and preaching without reforming God loves to see the plants of