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A65195	Two treatises ... both written by Sir Henry Vane, Knight in the time of his imprisonment.	Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662.; Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662. Epistle general, to the mystical body of Christ on earth.; Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662. Face of the times.	1662 (1662)	Wing V80_PARTIAL; Wing V67_PARTIAL; ESTC R7026	96,369	132

unto him unto whom as he is his Equal for saith he I and the Father are one So also he is his Servant and hath his Office of Ministry under him For the end of Christ's Ministry is to unvail the Glory of his Father and to shine with him as second in the Throne which he prefers much before the drawing of all men to himself to depend and rest on him only and not on the Father in and through him as well those do that rest in the knowledge of Christ according to the flesh and behold not that vail rent upon his spiritual Cross in order to live to him that died for them and rose again By what we have already shewed we have or may have the sight of him who is the Holy and Invisible One from whom as from the Head all Natural as well as Spiritual good doth flow 2. The next thing propounded is to set forth the two distinct Branches and Administrations of this Headship exercised by Christ as he is the Son of Man glorified ministring the Inspiration Anointing and Image of God which is given according to the Principles and Law both of the first and of the second Covenant The influence and effect hereof upon all rational beings whether Angels or Men in their mutable estate or immutable doth proceed from Christ as he is the second Adam that quickening Spirit who is Lord from Heaven And hereof he hath his living and undeniable Witness in the Hearts and Consciences of his Subjects and Followers from the beginning of the World to the end thereof 1. The Headship which Christ exerciseth by the first of these Ministries is that of Supream Natural Lord and Sovereign over all Creatures by the breath of whose mouth they were made Psal 33. Rev. 4. 11. and redeemed by his Blood Rev. 5. 9. So that his right of Rule to them and over them is indisputable and their obligation for duty and service to him indispensable and perpetual The Angels that fell are charged Jude 6. with defection from and rebellion against this their Prince and Sovereign Lord leaving and deserting him who was their appointed Habitation and Object of Worship and Duty by the very Law of their Creation And unto the same Disobedience and Revolt from Christ was the first Adam tempted who was subjected at first to none but God While God the Mediator ruled and man obeyed all went right For God being most perfectly wise and just could not erre in commanding but man though innocent yet being free and mutable was capable to be tempted from his Obedience as it fell out Satan that by his disobedience had overthrown himself knew thereby the way how to overthrow man He perceived God could not be corrupted nor tempted to unwise or unrighteous Government And if neither King nor Subject could have been corrupted the Kingdom must needs have stood But he quickly found man was frail though holy and had not yet attained to his incorruptible estate though upright and was therefore capable to be wrought upon and corrupted in his mind from the simplicity that is in Christ Man would be as God have no guide but his own understanding hating that just restraint which was needful as a bridle to be put upon him to keep him from falling and which God provided to offer to him as the means to remain innocent and pass out of his mutable into an immutable holy state without sin But this would not go down nor be born The resignation of his Will and absolute resolution of it into the Will of his Sovereign by believing who required it for his good would not be hearkened unto He could not or would not or would not think he was such a fool as stood in need of being so absolutely at the will and dispose of another when as yet he was his own man free to continue under the guide of his own self-rule a thing very beautiful and good as he thought to be put into practice This was the Choice God had given unto man in this his righteous mutable state either to trust to his own guidance for the ordering of his steps according to the Rule set before him and the conditional Terms of the Law of Nature and first Agreement or Covenant made with him at his Creation or else to distrust his own Wisdom as insufficient to be his guide and his own power of Will that was mutable and uncertain in its best state and thereupon commit and resign himself through Faith unto the guidance and power of his Natural Head Lord and Sovereign to do as by the sight of Faith he should find him do and cleave close to him whatsoever he should go before him in The first of these the first man determined himself in and in that Act chose for his whole seed as well as for himself who if God pleased might have been then concluded by it without any new offer of Grace made unto them or their ever being brought to so fair a tender again But so far was God the Mediator from applying himself speedily to any severe course of proceeding against the first Adam and his Posterity that sinned with him in his loyns as that he takes this occasion to renew his first Offer upon the experience Man now had of trusting to his own wisdom and strength God freely of his own accord makes a Promise to man of a Redeemer that should come in his own Nature and be made flesh to recover him out of his sinfull corrupted state and bring him and his Posterity once more into a state of Reconciliation with God that what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh might be done by God's sending his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh who by the sacrificing of himself condemned sin in the flesh that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in all such as walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit And here behold the Righteousness of God which is and declares it self by the Faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all that believe making no difference but as all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God in the Act of our first Parents disobedience So all should be restored and brought into a capacity of being justified freely by his Grace through the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ and made the Righteousness of God in him against all that can be objected by the Malice of Satan or from the Justice of God's Law that hath been broken and must be satisfied either by the person offending or some other proper to make Atonement by his Obedience in the imputation whereof we may be accounted righteous as by the Act of disobedience in the first Adam we were made sinners This is done by the Redemption which is wrought for all men and forgiveness of sins through the Blood of Christ either conditionally or absolutely Col. 1. 20 23. Hereupon God expresly and sincerely declares he

desires not the death of a sinner having sent his only begotten Son into the World that all should live through him and none perish or die in their sins for want of a possible and sufficient Remedy even him whom God hath fore-ordained and set forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood for the remission of sins that are past And this is so far from making void the Law or first Covenant between God and man that it doth establish it and much clear up the Justice of God in exacting the Debt of Obedience and Allegiance due to him from Man according to the Law when so much Clemency and Forbearance hath preceded and an Act of Oblivion freely and of Grace hath been passed the benefit whereof is conditionally extended unto all Hence it is that the Office of giving and putting in execution the Law of God as it is a Ministry that works wrath is committed by the Father unto Christ as he is the Son of Man First to dispence Judgment with Mercy great patience and long-suffering and afterwards without Mercy as that fiery Indignation which is reserved for wilful and hardned sinners This Christ doth plainly intimate Luke 12. 10. where he saith Whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man it shall be forgiven him but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven For what else can be the meaning of these words but that Christ would have his Disciples know that Judgment was first committed to him as he is the Son of Man made the chief Officer and Dispenser of God's Justice whether distributive or revenging the exact Rule whereof is given and contained in the Law of Nature or Covenant of Works The Transgressions against this Law are capable of remission and forgiveness through his Blood the Intercession whereof speaks better things than that of Abel and prevails for gifts even to the Rebellious so that they receive not God's grace nor take his Name in vain if they do he will not hold them guiltless nor continue any longer to extend to them the benefit of his Sacrifice Secondly Therefore Judgment was committed to him without Mercy in reference to such sins by which the doers of them blasphemed and resisted the Ministry he was intrusted with of giving the Holy Ghost or inspiring the hearts of the Regenerate with the new Name and that saving knowledge of God which is communicated according to the Law of Faith and of the new and everlasting Covenant This is the Royal Office and Dignity which Jesus as the Son of Man is exalted unto by the personal union which he hath with the Word being made a meet Minister in all respects through his Death and Resurrection to dispence God's sovereign Justice and to execute Judgment and Equity according to the Law of Nature renewed and confirmed in his own Blood Herein he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords the great and Universal Monarch that is appointed Law-giver and chief Judge in Heaven and Earth to and over all Natural Beings whether Angels or men and is the rewarder of every man according to his works with the same measure that any man metes unto another he measures out unto him again and strictly doth insist upon and require that which is just and due to be paid unto God or man by the Law and Principles of the first Covenant He therefore hath the Gifts and Abilities incident to that Communion with God committed to him to dispence being the Head of God's distributive as well as his revenging Justice and will make it appear that he desires not to reap where he hath not sown nor to gather where he hath not first strewed and dispersed abroad in his bounty and liberality none being a more chearful giver and lender of his Goods than He looking for nothing again where there is no ability to pay not happening through our own default This is the Ministry which worketh Wrath that is to say contracts a debt of Punishment and of the Curse to every one that joyns issue with God upon the terms of this Covenant and continues not in all things written in it to do them And although by this Ministry and that from Christ himself as he is the Son of man there be a life and communication of God's Image given which in it self considered is pure holy righteous spiritual and good yet it is but upon such terms that it may be again withdrawn and revoked by the Giver if he please or may be corrupted or forfeited by the Receiver and so end in death and wrath The proof of this was seen at first in the Fall of our first Parents and is since in all the Children of Perdition who after all their great and high enlightnings and clensing from all their old sins fall into a relapse that is irrecoverable so as to become trees twice dead finally to be pluckt up by the roots and burned It is Christ in the exercise of this his first Ministry that we intend when we say that he is the Lord of Nature and Fountain of all Justice upholding a powerful and lasting Witness of himself in the very Natural Conscience where he begets and sets up that knowledge which declares God Just and the Justifier of him that either is perfectly righteous in his own person with the righteousness that his Law requires or that in default thereof is righteous in another that God hath given to be made a Sacrifice for them that they thereby might be made the Righteousness of God in him such as he is willing to accept on their behalf and to reward not of Debt but of Grace In one of these two wayes it is for all men to seek to be justified to answer the end of the Law and to receive the reward of it But as to those that neither in the one nor the other of these wayes desire to approve themselves and be found righteous they are justly convinced of all and shall be judged of all as meet objects for God's revenging Justice to be shewed upon them as the Judgement that is final after which no place is left for Mercy So then in and by this Ministry that begins in Justice distributive which is founded in God's bounty and liberality by which he giveth to all their being life and motion and filleth the desire of every living thing and which endeth in avenging and punishing Justice upon mercy and bounty abused as the known natural Principles of all Law and righteous Magistratical Government God manifests himself the Fountain thereof in the Person of Christ the Mediator And in this kind of knowledge of God and obedience to his Law all mankind are and must be conversant whether they will or no and are to shew themselves either his obedient Subjects whom he countenanceth protecteth and rewardeth in their well-doing or his rebellious and disloyal Subjects over whom he will glorifie himself in his avenging Justice and dispensation

with it Heb. 2. 1. So there is a second sort of Witnesses unto the same Principles in substance that is to say to the life of the Image of God in pure Nature wherein man was at first created as it comes again to be renewed and restored with power in the soul by the knowledge of Jesus Christ and the Redemption that is by his Blood through the Ministry of the written Word and the operation of the Spirit of Christ in the use of those Ordinances and Institutions of Worship which he hath appointed and revealed in the Scriptures according to the several measures of their growth up into this knowledge of Christ and faithfull walking with him therein under the variety of Profession and Forms of visible Worships that are extant in that which is acknowledged or witnessed to be the visible Christian Church which by the preaching of the Gospel upon the Ascention of Christ and the Ministry of his Spirit poured forth in the primitive state of it came to be raised up by God's visiting the Gentiles to take out of them a People of his Name that he might substitute unto himself as another Israel and holy People and Church of visible Professors of his Name in the room and place of the Jews and the old Law and Form of Worship that had been in practice among them Rom 11. which made James in Act. 15. 16 17. apply the words of the Prophets unto this new Christian Gentile Church which sayes After this I will return and will build up the Tabernacle of David which is fallen down and will build again the ruines thereof and I will set it up that the residue of men might seek after the Lord and all the Gentiles upon whom my Name is called saith the Lord who doth all these things Now amongst the visible Members of the Christian Church as evidently appears Gal. 4. there were a Generation that under the Name of Christians and hearers of the Gospel and Ministry of the Spirit according to the New Testament chose still to retain the Principles of the Law and first Covenant as the ballance of all their Faith Obedience and Worship desiring to be under the Law and Dominion of it and to cleave to the upholding and doing those things which according to the Judgment of the Apostle Paul made them debtors to the whole Law and struck them clear off from the true Principles of Grace that are by the Law of Faith and of the new and everlasting Covenant and of this they gave but too clear a proof in that they gloried in something that was on this side the Spiritual mind which is set upon things that are above and which ought to be died unto by the Doctrine of the Cross unto which they shew themselves the declared and zealous opposers Not but that in words and profession these pretended as much to own the Principles of Free-Grace and of the New-Testament as any and have their approach to it at least when they please themselves some more and some less but when they are brought to the Tryal they quickly shew that they are not able to endure the bridling and restraint which the New-Testament puts upon them by the Doctrine of the Cross of Christ to the crucifying that wherein they desire and affect to glory from which they are excluded by the Law of Faith and the New-Creature as we shall shew in its place So that in Truth that which these second sort of Witnesses have in their eye is not the being and life of the New Creature but the restoration of the old Adam in his primitive righteous and holy state into which they grow up and are found for the life of their holiness and upon that bottom as a qualification to entitle them to all the Promises and their abode and continuance in Fellowship and Communion with Christ and Interest in his Death for the Remission of sins They do experience such acceptance from Christ and are in themselves so certain of their good Estates to their Eternal Salvation that they will not endure to hear wherein they are in a mistake nor that it is possible for them to be better These do indeed excel the first Witnesses in the doctrinal part of the knowledge of Christ confessing him in that great part of his Priestly Office which the others see not as he bare our Transgressions and made Atonement for the sin of mankind by the Sacrifice of himself in the benefit of which Sacrifice they find their outward peace and joy more than in their righteous works nay when as to the light and evidence of their Sanctification they are at a loss and in the dark they have an adherence to the blood of Christ as the propitiation for their sins and his intercession on their behalfs to the Father for the obtaining new strength against Corruption and the renewal of their former peace and comfort which experience the first sort of Witnesses are strangers to or see no need of but account themselves Justified as well as Sanctified by the inward purity and perfection which they have attained with power over the brutish and sensual Nature that they are more careful and able to keep under than this second sort are Nevertheless The Oyl which is given from Christ under this first Ministry in either of these respects before-mentioned is that Annointing that through the frailty and weakness of the Vessel that receives it is not abiding but at the best is but as a sojourner that finds not in these hearts the new man that is the place of its rest Isa 66. and though it be used by Christ to trim the Lamp of the spirit of man with when renewed and restored to the obedience and subjection that is required by the Law of God in any degree and measure of sincerity or chastity of the pure Lamb-like and virgin Spirit yet being only in the Lamp where it spends and consumes and must be duly renewed and by a frame of heart meet to receive it and cheerish it or else being grieved and quenched it suddenly departs Hence it is that amongst these two Witnesses under this Anointing which is from Christ and the operation good righteous holy and spiritual and the change made by it true and real there are such a number of visible Professors that prove Hypocrites Apostates and fall away from the Grace and enlightening they have felt and experienced deceiving both themselves and others being not able to hold it out in the day of Tryal nor to persevere and endure to the end without on the other hand stumbling on the stumbling stone and becoming prejudiced against any higher and further growths up into Christ or on the other hand through fear of loss by Persecution are terrified from well-doing with amazement or are bought off from it with the reward of unrighteousness as Balaam was and as Demas who embraced this present World And the Reason of this as to the one as well as

or Priests with Christ or both that is joynt or co-heirs with Christ in the dignity and perfection of his Manhead in one or both of these Considerations of it This is intimated Isa 43. 10. Ye are my Witnesses saith the Lord and my Servant Christ whom I have chosen that ye may know and believe me or be one in Judgment and Will with me and understand that I am he Before me there was no God formed nor shall be after me And they are called Witnesses not only because they know and believe him and are one in Spirit with him as he is a glorified earthly man and a man also that is Michael God's fellow but as they Prophesie in Sack-cloth or in a suffering state not loving their lives unto the death rather then cease to be Witnesses and to bear their testimony to the Truth when called thereunto under the greatest contradiction of sinners 9. By the Woman chap. 12. clothed with the Sun c. who being with Child cried travelling in birth with a Man-child and pained to be delivered is meant the true Sarah or spiritual Womb of Christ's dead body Rom. 7. 4. which lawfully discharges us from the Covenant of the Law or obligation to act singly by the activity it gives that we should be married to another even to him who is raised from the dead that we may bring forth fruit unto God as quicken'd into a life and activity much more excellent There is therefore set before the eyes of our Faith the Law of the Spirit of Life that is in-Christ Jesus risen from the dead for us hence-forward to be conformed and live unto as that birth of manly perfection which shines forth in him who was crucified indeed in weakness but was raised in power or a man of Power in whose hands all Power in Heaven and Earth is intrusted And those who become one in conjunction of Spirit with him by the new and everlasting Covenant are with him caught up to the Throne of God in the one or other capacity before intimated of the two sorts of Citizens that by the new birth are members of the Heavenly Jerusalem and of the remnant of the Womans Seed that keep the Commandments of God and have the Testimony of Jesus The great Contest and Battel which happened between the Witnesses on the one part comprehended under the name of Michael and his Angels and the Serpent and his brood on the other was as the one were Friends and the other Enemies to the Cross and Death of Christ and as the Judgment Opinions and Practises of the one or other made void or else established and advanced the Mystery and Efficacy of the Cross and the Law of it which those that observe and follow peace will be upon them as on all the Israel of God In this Quarrel the Witnesses do fight under the protection and blessing of Michael their Head as the other do under the support and encouragement of the Old Dragon their Head 10. By the Old Dragon we are to understand the Spirit that rules in the Children of disobedience who is for the present Head and chief Ruler over the World as managing the universal Scepter thereof by Christ's permission The Ensigns and Characters of this Empire according to Scripture phrase is seven heads and ten horns intimating the nature as well as perfection and universality of that worldly Power which is exercised by the Old Dragon in waging war against the Woman and her Seed This War he is capable to manage either as an Angel of Light and a false Prophet in the Church or as an universal Monarch and Governor in the World In the first Capacity as this Dragon transforms himself into an Angel of Light and Minister of Righteousness he works with all Power Signs and lying Wonders As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses and Aaron in their Commission so do the Serpent's Seed in Sheep's clothing and Christ's own likeness resist the Witnesses in their Testimony and oppose the Inhabitants of the Heavenly Jerusalem by pretending a greater Friendship to Christ and conformity to his written Law in all their words and actions than the true Seed of the Woman having indeed the form of Godliness but denying the Power and Spirit thereof After this manner did the Dragon and his Angels in the Primitive Church fight with Michael and his Angels to prevent the birth of the Man-child and to keep up the Credit and Authority of the Law and their following after Righteousness in the Principles and upon the terms of the first Covenant in opposition to the Ministry of the Spirit according to the Promise and Tenor of the new and everlasting Covenant This battel continued in the Primitive Church about four hundred years and came at last to this issue Satan was cast down out of Heaven upon an evident discovery of his deceitful workings and lying wonders in the Teachings and Inspirations which came out of his mouth as a false Spirit and Prophet so that he was not able singly this way to bear up any longer against the Power and Demonstration of the Spirit of Truth in the mouth of the Saints but found himself necessitated to resort to his earthly and worldly Weapons the Power of the Civil Sword that so joyning both his Interests together that of the Magistrate and false Prophet he might grow up into such a formidible posture as is mentioned Chap. 13. 4. where it is said Who is like unto the BEAST or able to make War with him This posture the Apostle John beheld the Dragon putting himself into when the seven-headed and ten-horned Beast arose out of the Sea and the two-horned Beast out of the Earth Both of these together do become the Seat or Throne to which the Dragon gave up his Power and Authority The first of these two Beasts receives him as the old unclean prophane heathenish Spirit they that are meant by that Beast are still the same in Principles as before only outwardly baptized into the name of the Christian Profession or Religion when Christian Religion became the Religion of the Roman Empire Thus was that Beast healed of its former Wound when Paganism was destroyed and pull'd down And because the bare name of Christian Religion or out-side Profession thereof without something of real Reformation and Power of inward Principles was not of credit or authority enough to advance Antichrist's Kingdom therefore the Ministry of the Law or first Covenant even the knowledge of Christ according to the flesh as it is capable to serve the Serpents Seed for a cover and vail of their enmity against the Cross of Christ and Power of his Resurrection doth spring up over the head as it were of the first Beast This second Beast or branch of Antichrist's Subjects and Kingdom with two horns like the Lamb but speaking as the Dragon chuses rather to joyn Interest with the first Beast than to suffer the Citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem to come out