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death_n	adam_n	sin_n	soul_n	5,612	5	5.5561	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91909	The mystery of the two witnesses unvailed Wherein wee have a description of their persons time acts death and office. manner of prophecie. sufferings. resurrection. With the consequences that follow. Together with the seaventh trumpet, and the kingdome of Christ explained. by John Robotham, preacher of the Gospel in Dover.	Robotham, John, fl. 1654.	1654 (1654)	Wing R1732; Thomason E1469_3; ESTC R208689	148,859	409

Suitable unto the head are all the members The righteousnesse and sanctity of beleevers doth much excell the excellency and righteousnesse of the first Adam even as gold doth excell other mettals Gold is the most solid pure and durable mettall of all other by which is represented the sound pure and everlasting grace holinesse of the Saints they are not made up of drosse or any earthly excellency of the first Adam but of the pure and undefiled of the precious and permanent of the divine and heavenly nature and righteousness of Jesus Christ Thirdly These Candlesticks are meant of the Churches and Saints of God in as much as Christ is sayd to walke and appeare in the middest of them Revel 1. 13. Christ by his divine presence with his Saints doth teach guide and uphold them and by his wisdome providence and power doth mightily preserve them in the middest of feares and dangers As the Candlestick of it selfe is not sufficient to give forth light no more can the Saints shine forth in heavenly brightnesse but as they receive all their light and shine from Christ who is to them as oyle to the lampe and by his owne spirit life and light doth cause them to shine forth in spirituall happinesse and glory Fourthly and lastly the Saints as Candlesticks hold forth the light and glory of God before the men of the world Thus the Apostle doth exhort the Philippians that by sincerity and holinesse they would shine forth as lights among the perverse sonnes of men and therefore saith That ye may be blamelesse and harmlesse the Sonnes of God without rebuke in the middest of a crooked and perverse Nation among whom ye shine as light John Baptist was sayd to beare witnesse of the light Joh. 1. 7. And therefore called a burning and a shining light Joh. 5. 35. His doctrine was as a fire burning and his conversation as a light shining among all those he was conversant with alwayes giving forth an ample testimony of Christ bearing witnesse that he was the true light enlightening all that by him should come into the world Thus we see who are meant by the two Candlesticks the Saints of the most high who receive oyle into themselves and as gold they appeare in righteousnesse being by Christs presence continually fed with the constant supply of grace whereby they shine forth as glorious lights alwayes being ready to give forth a testimony of the grace and truth of Christ before the men of the world In the third place having shewed that Christ the great and faithfull witnesse is resembled by the two olive trees emptying oyle out of himselfe into the Churches signified by two Candlesticks whereby they become the anointed ones of God standing before the Lord of the whole earth and beare witnesse unto the truth Now it next followeth that we shew why they are called two olive trees and two Candlesticks But first why Christ is called two olive trees And that 's in two respects First From his two fold nature Secondly From his two fold dispensation First Christ is called two olive trees in respect of his twofold nature namely his humane and divine First Christ according to his humanity tooke on him the very ranke nature and quality of men as the Apostle testifieth that he tooke the forme of a servant and was sound 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the similitude and shape of men subject to mans passions and every way a right man fin onely excepted and hence it was that he was called holy harmlesse and separate from sinners 1 Pet. 1. 19. The Apostle relates to the Paschall Lamb which was so conditioned it was behovefull that Christ should be man and also that he should be perfectly holy and righteous and so become a competent and fitting Saviour for sinning soules and lost sinners It was most requisite that t here should be some suitable analogy and proportion between him that lost all him that recover'd all that as Adam was of the earth so Christ also should take upon him the same forme that so ou● nature might suffer in him and he by his death should offer up a sufficient sacrifice to make a full expiation and satisfaction for his people in respect of sin past present and to come from the guilt and hainousnesse whereof the Saints being wholly acquitted and free'd their soules may be comforted and refreshed Secondly Christ according to his divine nature is God the onely begotten the image of the Father the altitude and summity of all blessednesse and glory In this respect he is the Summum benum the chiefe and soveraigne good the top of all felicity and happinesse Christ is that fountaine from whence all goodnesse flows and the ultimate and last end unto which all things tend for by him and for him of him and through him and to him are all things Rom. 11. 36. And God tells Moses that his Name is in him Exod. 23. 20. Gods name is God himselfe for God's name and attributes are his very essence So that Christ according to his divine nature is full of all excellency and perfection he is the beginning and the ending the Alpha and Omega he is the good and the end concentring in one he is most compleat in himselfe and hath the fullnesse of all things So that as the soule lookes upon Christ in flesh as one most suitable for a Mediator so here beholding his divine nature sees an alsufficiency of fullnesse to make a glorious supply of all wants and defects whatsoever Christ in his debasements is a familiar object for our faith being Emmanuel or God in our flesh so in the brightnesse of his fathers image and glory he becomes all blessednesse and satisfaction to our soules The soule eyeing that most absolute universall and comprehensive goodnesse that is in Christ can be contented to fit downe and acquiesse in his absolute perfection and fulnesse and say with David I shall be satisfied when I awake with his likenesse or image Psal 17. 15. Having shewed how Christ resembleth the two olive trees in his two natures The first as man appearing in our form and fashion as a familiar object to our weaknesse And secondly as God the fulnesse and perfection of all things and so yeelding everlasting satisfaction Now we come in the second place to shew also how Christ is represented hereby in respect of his twofold dispensation First By what Christ hath wrought for us in his person Secondly By what Christ works in us by his Spirit First we have that dispensation of Christ's manifested by what he hath wrought for us in his person Christ was God manifest in the flesh clothed in our nature became Emanuel and dwelt among us The Apostle saith in Gal. 4. 4. That when the fulnesse of time was come God sent his Son made of a woman under the law The time designed and appointed of God is called the fulnesse of time God sent his Son out of himselfe out