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A30208	Some gospel-truths opened according to the Scriptures, or, The divine and humane nature of Christ Jesus, his coming into the world, his righteousness, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and second comming to judgment, plainly demonstrated and proved and also answers to severall questions, with profitable directions to stand fast in the doctrine of Jesus the son of Mary, against those blustring storms of the Devils temptations, which do at this day, like so many scorpions, break loose from the bottomless pit, to bite and torment those that have not tasted the vertue of Jesus by the revelation of the spirit of God / published for the good of Gods chosen ones by that unworthy servant of Christ John Bunnyan ...	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1656 (1656)	Wing B5598; ESTC R34771	92,539	312

Answ. First from that Scripture in Luke 24. 37 38 39 40. where Christ himselfe after ●he was crucified appeared to his Disciples who having seen him supposed they had seen a Spirit But he said Why are ye troubled and why doe thoughts arise in your hearts behold my hand and my feet that it is I my selfe and doe not think you see a spirit handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have This he spake after he was crucified Luke 23. 33. and buried v. 53. and rose againe from the dead chap. 24. 6 7. Many other Scriptures could I give for the proof hereof as Acts 10. 39 40 41 42. And Acts 13. 28 29 30 31. 1 Thess. 1. 10. only read Acts 2. 29 30 31. where the Apostle proveth the same bringing in the words of the Prophet David for a testimony thereof saying He being a Prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loynes according to the flesh he would raise up Christ to sit on his Throne saith he seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ that his soul was not left in hell neither his flesh did see corruption Mark it his flesh did see no corruption v. 31. But if he had not risen againe his flesh had seen corruption But he rose again from the dead that very man that very body for his flesh did see no corruption Q. Why did he rise againe from the dead with that very body Answ. 1. Because it was not possible he should be holden of death 2. Because in his humane nature he suffered for sin and if he had not recovered himselfe from that very curse even from under death and all other things that lay on him which he had through the sins of his children subjected himselfe unto he had not overcome sin hell death the law and the devil but had been overcome by them and if so then had not redemption been obtained for sinners for it was at his resurrection from the dead that God said unto him Thou art my sonne this day have I begotten thee As saith the Apostle And we declare unto you glad tidings how that the promise made unto the Fathers God had fulfilled the same unto us their children in that he hath raised up Jesus again as it is written in the second Psal. Thou art my Son this day have I begotten th●e Acts 13 30 31 32 33 34 35. And it is this namely the resurrection of that man from the dead that doth give us ground of hope as in 1 Pet. 1. 3. where he saith He hath begotten us again to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from 〈◊〉 dead 3. Because God intends to redeem the bodies of his Saints out of their graves in which they have lien many a yeare John 5. 28 29. Rom. 8. 23. 1 Cor. 15. 52. and to possesse them with his own glory and when this comes to passe then shall that Scripture be fulfilled that saith He shall change our vi●● body that it may be fashioned like to his glorious body according to the working of his mighty power whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself Phil. 3. 21. And he hath given us assurance thereof in that he hath raised up Jesus our Lord again from the dead Acts 17. 31. Q. But doe you think that these our bodies that we doe carry about with us in this world after that they are dead and buried and rotten shall rise again out of those graves into which they are laid when the Scripture saith flesh and blood shall not inherit the Kingdome of God Answ. Flesh in Scripture is taken more wayes then one as first it is taken for the workes of the law where the Apostle saith Received ye the spirit by the workes of the Law or by the hearing of faith Are ye so foolish having begun in the spirit are ye made perfect by the flesh By flesh here he meanes the Law as is clear if you compare Gal. 3. v. 2. 3. with v. 10 11. 12. Again sometimes flesh is taken for sinnes Rom. 8. 1. 5. And sometimes is is taken for the bodies of the Saints * as subject to distempers to pain sicknesse corruptions to death by reason of sinne * 2 Cor. 4. 11. 2 Cor. 7. 5. Now the Apostle in that place where he saith flesh and blood shall not inherit the Kingdome of Heaven or of God his meaning is sinful flesh and blood or the sin with any imperfection that is in the bodies of the Saints shall not inherit the Kingdome and that you shall find to be the mind of the holy Ghost if you read with understanding the latter end of the same verse where he saith Neither doth corruption inherit incorruption That is sin or any imperfection of the body shall not inherit eternal life for saith he in ver 53. This corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality Mark here I pray you though he saith flesh and blood shall not inherit the Kingdom of God yet he saith this corruptible must put on incorrution For the Trump shall blow and the dead shall be raised as Christ saith they that are in the graves shall hear his voi●e John 5. 28. and shall come forth of their graves incorruptible 1 Cor. 15. 52. and shall all appeare before the judgement-seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5. 10. Rev. 12. 1● 13. See also that Scripture Phil. 3. 20. 21 where the Apostle saith He waited for Christ the Saviour from Heaven And what shall he doe when he comes Why He shall change our vile body Mark it it must be our vile body that must be changed But if it be changed then how can it be the same Not the same in respect of sinne or bodily infirmities but the very same in respect of substance For saith he it is our vile body that must be changed And it the very same it shall be fashioned like to his glorious body And if you ask how is it possible that this should be done he answers according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself Phil. 3. 21. Q. But do you think this is certain methinks the Scriptures semingly hold forth so much yet I cannot believe it for it is contrary to all reason A. Truly the Scriptures do not only hold forth so much seemingly but they do most really and plainly hold out these things to all those that have received the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ. For it is it and it alone that can reveal these things For no man knows the things of God but the spirit of God 1 Cor. 2. 11. Now if thou wouldst know these things thou must first receive the spirit of the son of God without which thou canst not know so much as one of the fundamental truths of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Q. But there

two weeks shall Messiah be cut off That is Christ shall be crucified But not for himself That is not for any sin that he hath committed for he committed none Then surely it must be for the sins of the people Joh. 11. 50. as the high Piest said It is expedient that one man should die for the people which man was the true Messias Dan 9 24 Which also is the Son of Mary Mat. 1. 18 19 20 21 22. And the sonne of God Mat. 3. 17. And also the true God 1 Joh. 5. 20. And this Messias this son of the virgin this sonne of God this tree God did not die for himself for he had not offended Neither did he fulfill the Law or finish transgression and bring in everlasting righteousness for himself for he had not sinned 1 Pet. 2. 22. therefore it must of necessity follow that this righteousness of God this everlasting righteousnesse is imputed to all and upon all them that believe Rom. 3. 22. 2 Cor. 5. 19. 20 21. But Secondly this Messias this Son of Mary this Son of God this true God he was put to death for the sins that his children had cōmitted according to that saying Herein perceive we the love of God in that he laid down his life for us Also in Acts 20. the Apostle speaking to the Pastors of the Churches saith Feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Now I would not be mistaken I doe not think or say that he died in his Divine Nature but as it is written He in his owne body on the tree did bear our sins which tree was the Crosse Col. 2. 14. And as the Apostle saith again Who when he had by himself purged our sins sate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high And again the Apostle speaking of this glorious God saith on this wise Col 1. being before speaking of his Godhead in the 19. ver For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulnesse dwell and having made peace by the blood of his crosse by him to reconci●● all things to himselfe By him I say whether they be things in earth or things in heaven And you who were sometimes alienated and enemies in your minds by wicked works yet now hath ●e reconciled But how Why in ver 22. he tells you that it is in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight That is Christ who is the true God after that he had finished all actual obedience on earth did in the power and strength of his Godhead yield up himselfe to the wrath of his Father which was due to poor sinners and that willingly according to that saying in 1 Pet. 3. 18. ●or Christ also hath once suffered for sinners the just for the unjust That is the Son of God for poor sinners that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh but quickened in the spirit Again 1 Pet. 4. ● For asmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us not for himself in the flesh in his own body which he took of the Virgin 1 Pet. 2. 24. let us arm our selves with the same minde That is let us die to sin as he did that we might live to God as he did and doth And thus have I briefly shewed you ● That the Son of Mary is very God 2. That he made the world 3. That he is our Saviour and how 4. That he died for sinners and how Namely not in his divine nature but in his humane in his own body and in his own flesh redeeming his Church with his own blood Acts 20. 28. and with his own life 1 John 3. 16. John 10. 8. We shall now passe on to some other things the Lord willing touching his Burial Resur●●ction Ascen●on Intercession Second comming Resurrection of the body and Eternal Judgement His Burial proved And first I shall prove by several Scriptures that he was buried and so passe on First therefore see that place Matt. 27. v. 57. and so forward After that Jesus the Son of God had been crucified a while he gave up the Ghost that is he died and after he had been a while dead Joseph of Arimathea went in to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus and Pilate gave consent thereto And Joseph took the bod● of Jesus wrapped it in clean linnen and laid it viz. the body of Jesus in his own Tomb and rolled a stone upon the mouth of the Sepulchre and departed Matth. 27. 57 58 59 60. Also in Luke 24 51 52 53 The Apostle Paul also teacheth so much 1 Cor. 15. 3 4. where he saith For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received how that Christ di●d for our sinnes according to the Scriptures And that he was buried Again in Acts●3 ●3 29. the Apostle speaking there of Jesus Christ saith And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him they took him down from the tree and laid him in a Sepulchre And so much touching the burial of Jesus Christ the son of God In the next place I am to prove That that very man whom the Jewes did crucifie between two theeves called Jesus Ch●ist did rise againe That very man with that they body wherewith he was crucified upon the crosse did rise again out of the grave in which he was laid And this I shall prove by Scriptures by the testimony of Angels by Christs own words after he was risen and by the testimony of the Apostles in the Scriptures First therefore cons●der Psal. 16. v. 10. where the Prophet speaks on this wise of Christs Resurrection For thou wilt not leave my soule in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption Which words the Apostle Peter cites in Acts. 2. from v. 2● to 32. also Isa. 26. 19. in the person of Christ saith Thy dead meh shall live together with my dead body shall they rise See also John 20. 15 16. where mention is made of his appearing unto Mary Magdalen and he called her Mary and she called him Master which signifies that he was risen and that she knew him after his resurrection for he was come out of the grave see ver 6 7 8. Again another Scripture is that in Luke 24. 1 2 3. The Disciples of Jesus comming to the Sepulchre thinking to anoint the body of Jesus found the stone that was on the mouth of the Sepulchre rolled away and when they wen● in they found not the body of the Lord Jesus and at this they were troubled and perplexed v. 4. But as two of them went up to Emmaus and were talking of what had befallen to Jesus Jesus himselfe drew near and went with them v. 15. Another Scripture is that in Mark 16. v. 9. which saith on this wise Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the

further lay them open before thee And first the prophane scoffer who makes a mocke at the truths of God and so goes on in his sins for this see in 2 Pet. 3. 3. which the Apostle attributes to their ignorance ver 5. And therefore he likens them to bruit beasts Chap. 2. 10. and 12. verses who walke after the flesh in the lusts of uncleanness speak evil of the things they understand not and shall utterly perish in their corruption who because they understand not the Scriptures nor the power of God in them speake evil of the truths therein contained and think the Lord like unto themselves Psal. 50. Secondly the formal professor who hath onely a notion of the Gospell and some seeming holiness but wants Gospel faith Such are called foolish virgins Mat 25. 2 3. to whom Christ will say in that day Verily I know you not Adde hereto those that think it enough to confess Christ with their mouthes and profess that they know God but deny him in their works such notwithstanding all their profession shall if they so continue perish eternally being abominable disobedient and to every good work reprobate or void of judgement that is ignorant Tit. 1. v. 16. 3. The legal righteous man or woman though they walke blameless as touching the righteousnesse that is in the law For they being ignorant of Gods righteousness go about to establish their own righteousness as reading hearing Sermons prayers publique or private peaceableness with their Neighbours Fasting Almes good works as they count them just dealings abstinence from the grosser pollutions of the world stricter obedience to the commandments of the first and second table all which with many other things may be comprehended in their own righteousnesse and it is grounded on their ignorance and goes on in rebellion and such ignorant persons shall in that day perish not submitting through ignoranco to the righteousness of God Rom. 10. 3. compared with Luke 19. 27. where Christ saith that when he shall come the second time he will command those his enemies who submitted not themselves to him who is called the righteousness of God Esay 46. 13. or would not have him to reign over them to be slaine before his face 4. Those whose hearts are set upon the world and follow the alluring perswasions of it the Lord calls such fools Luke 12. 20 and Pro. 7. 7. who go after it v●z the world held forth by a similitude of a woman with the attire of an harlot as an oxe to the slaughter or a Foole to the correction of the stocks till a dart strike thorow his liver as a bird hasteth to the snare and knoweth not that it is for his life and knows not marke it is through ignorance ver 23. A fift end of Christs comming is that his righteous ones might shine as the Sun in the glory or Kingdom of their Father Mat. 13. 43. there are many things that do hinder the People of God from shining forth as the Sun now As first they have a body of death which makes them fetch many a groane in their journey to Canaan Rom. 7. 24. 2 Cor. 5. 2. They meet with many a sad temptation which also makes them in heaviness many a time 1 Pet 1. 6. They have also many other things that doe hinder their shining now but then the body of death shall be left off My meaning is that sin shall be no more in the natures of Gods people then Their bodies that are now so vile shall then be made like unto the glorious body of the son of God who shall change our vile bodie that it may be like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself Phil. 3. ver 21. 6. Another end of Christs coming shall be to take an account of his children how they have laid out their talents that he hath committed to their trust Mat. 25. 19. Rom. 14 12. 2 Cor. 5. 10. 7. Another end of his coming is to set up his Kingdom which will be glorious indeed at his appearing 2 Tim. 3. 1. Rom. 8. 19 20 21. I do but touch these things because I would hasten towards a conclusion many other things might have been spoken to but at this time I shal forbear But you will say Who shall stand when he appears why I told you before that the ungodly shall not stand in the judgement nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous Psa. 1. 5. let him be close or prophane as I told you even now all shall be laid open all shall be made manifest all shall come into judgement Ah poor soul it is not then thy brave words will save thee it is not thine eloquent tongue that will then do thee any good if thou be without the wedding garment thou wilt be speechlesse as in Mat. 22. 12. But thou that art a converted person shalt stand in the judgement thou that are born again shalt enter into the Kingdom and none else Joh 3. 5. Rev. 21. 27. But how shall I know that I am born again Answ. Why if thou art born again then thou knowest that thou wast not born a Christian at first Eph. 2. 1 2 3. you hath the quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins 2. Thou knowest that once thou hadst no faith in the Lord Jesus and wert convinced of sin because thou didst not believe in the son of Mary Jol. 6. 9. 3. Thou seest all true joy through the blood and righteousness of the son of Mary 1 Cor. 15. 57. Rom. 7. 24. 25. 4. Art thou born again then thou canst not be quiet till thou seest God smile and lift up the light of his countenance upon thee Psa. 4. 6. and that through the face of the son of Mary the son of God 5. Thou knowest that God hath given thee thy faith Phil. 1. 29. Eph. 2. 8. 6. Art thou born again then thou knowest that the doctrine of the son of M●ry the Virgin is a right doctrine 2 Joh 9. 7. Then also thou lookest for the personal appearing of the son of Mary from heaven in the clou●ls Rev. 1. 7. the second time Heb. 9 28 These things though plain yet if the Lord set them home upon thy conscience may be profitable both to thee and me Therefore let us examine the matter a little And first Thou thinkest that thou art a Christian thou shouldst be sorry else well but when did God shew thee that thou wert no Christian when didst thou see that and in the light of the spirit of Christ see that thou wert under the wrath of God because of original sin Nay dost thou know what original sin means Is it not the least in thy thoughts and dost thou not rejoyce in secret that thou art the same that thou ever wert If so then know for certain that the wrath of God to this very day abideth on thee Joh. 3. 36. And if so

holiness purity of heart and life Acts 15. 9. purifying their hearts by faith and then the more thou hast of the right faith of Christ and of his things in thy heart the more strong and valiant wilt thou be in spirit to doe any worke private or publick for Jestis Christ like Stephen Acts 6 ver 8. who being full of faith and of the holy spirit was also full of power In this book thou hast also laid down from the Scriptures how Jesus Christ is without the Saints as man and yet dwelleth within them that is somthing of his divine nature or his blessed spirit dwels within them which spirit is somtime called the spirit of Christ. Rom. 8. 9. he that hath not the spirit of Christ c. and sometime called Christ Rom. 8. 10. if Christ be in you c. and also how we may know whether it be Christ and the spirit of Christ within or a false spirit calling it self Christ that is thus if it be indeed Christ within that is the spirit of Christ God-man why then it teaches that man or woman in whom it is to apply and trust in Christ without for Salvation Christ as born of the Virgin Mary as fulfilling the Law without them as dying without the gate of Jerusalem as a sacrifice for sin it teaches them to trust in the man Christ as rising againe out of the grave without them as ascending into and interceding in heaven without for them and as to come from that heaven againe in his flesh to judge the world Thus the man Christ himself saith Joh. 16. 13. When he the spirit of truth is come c. he shall glorifie me v. 14. he shall make you more to prize admire and glorifie me who am both God and man And who shal be absent from you touching my body Then followes For he shall take of mine of my glorious things and shew them to you He shall take my divine and humane Nature my birth my person and offices my obedience death satisfaction my resurrection ascension and intercession and of my second comming in the clouds with my mighty Angels to judgement and shall shew them or cleer them up to you He shall take of my salvation which I have wrought for you in my own person without you And he shall take of my glorie and exaltation in the heavens and shew to you Now to minde this one thing and to be set down in a right understanding of it by the Spirit from the Scriptures will be of great concernment to thee and me for for want of this many professors have split themselves some looking only on what Christ hath done suffered without them resting in an historical traditional and indeed a fancyed faith of it without looking for the Spirit of Jesus Christ to come with power into their hearts without which they cannot rightly know nor rightly believe in Christ the Son of God without them so as to have any share or interest in him Rom. 8. 9. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Others have been depending too much upon somthing they call Christ and the righteousness of Christ within them in opposition to Christ and his righteousnesse without them from which all true saints have their justification and comfort it being received through the operation of the spirit which dwels in them and however these may talk much of Christ within them yet it is manifest that it is not the spirit of Christ but the spirit of the Divel in that it doth not glorifie but sleight and reject the man Christ and his righteousnesse which was wrought without them Reader in this book thou wilt not meet with high-flown aerie notions which some delight in counting them high mysteries but the sound plain common and yet spiritual and and mysterious truths of the Gospel and if thou art a believer thou must needs reckon them so and the more if thou hast not only the faith of them in thy heart but art daily living in the spiritual sence and feeling of them and of thy interest in them Neither doth this Treatise offer to the doubtful controversial things or matters of opinion as some Books chiefly doe which when insisted upon more the weightier things of the gospell have alwayes done more hurt then good but here thou hast things certain and necessary to be believed which thou canst not too much study Therefore pray that thou maiest receive this word which is according to the Scriptures in faith and love not as the word of man but as the word of God without respect of persons and be not offended because Christ holds forth the glorious treasure of the gospel to thee in a poor earthen vessell by one who hath neither the greatness nor the wisdome of this world to commend him to thee for as the Scripture saith Christ who was low and contemptible in the world himself ordinarily chuseth such for himself and for the doing of his work 1 Cor. 1. 26 27 28. Not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world c. this man is not chosen out of an earthly but out of the heavenly University the Church of Christ which Church as furnished with the spirit gifts and graces of Christ was in the beginning and still 〈…〉 will be to the end 〈◊〉 the world that out o● which the word of the Lord and 〈…〉 gospel Ministers 〈◊〉 proceed whether 〈◊〉 or unlearned as to humane learning 1 Cor. 12. 2● 28. And though this man hath not the learning or wisdome of man yet through grace he hath received the teaching of God and the learning of the spirit of Christ which is the thing that makes a man both a Christian and a Minister of the Gospell as Isa. 50. 4. The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned c. compared with Luke 2. 18. where Christ as man saith the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor c. He hath through grace taken these three heavenly degrees to wit union with Christ the anointing of the spirit and experience of the temptations of Satan which doe more fit a man for that weighty work of preaching the Gospell then all Vniversity Learning and degrees that can be had My end in writing these few lines is not to set up man but having had experience with many other saints of this mans soundnesse in the faith of his godly conversation and his ability to preach the gospel not by humane art but by the spirit of Christ and that with much success in the conversion of sinners when there are so many carnal empty preachers both learned and unlearned I say having had experience of this and judging this Booke may be very profitable to many others as well as to my selfe I thought it my duty upon

Scripture for our Lord sprang out of Judah Heb. 7. 14. Againe when Christ the Saviour was to come into the world at that time the Scepter was to depart from Judah according to the prophesie of Jacob The Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come Gen. 49. 10. Now the Scepter was then departed from those that were Jews by nature and also the lawgiver and Herod who was a stranger and not of Judea was King over them as Caesars Deputy and Caesar Augustus imposed lawes on them The stuborn Jews also confessed the Scepter to be departed when before Pontius Pilate a Romane governour of ●udea they cryed out against Christ We have no King but Caesar Joh. 19. 15. Nay further the Jewes from that day to this have beene without a ●ing of their owne nation to governe them they never had the Scepter swayed since by any of themselves but have been a scattered despised people and have been as it were liable to all dangers and for a long time driven out from their countrey and scattered over all the Nations of the earth as was prophesied concerning them Je● 24. 9. Zek. 5. 14 15. And yet these poor souls are so horribly deluded by the devil that though they see these things come to passe yet they will not believe And one reason among many of their being thus deluded is this they say that the word Scepter in that 49. of Gen. is not meant of a Kingly Government but the me●ning is say they a rod or persecutions shall not depart from Judah till Shiloh come Now they doe most grosly mistake that place for though I am not skilled in the Hebrew tongue yet through grace I am enlightned into the Scriptures whereby I find that the meaning is not persecutions no● the rod of afflictions but a Governour or Scepter of the Kingdome shall not depart from Judah till Shiloh come And that this is the meaning of the place weigh but the very next words of the same verse and you will find it to be the Scepter of a King that is meant for he addeth nor a Lawgiver from between his feet Marke it The Scepter nor a Lawgiver the Legislative power depending on the Scepter of the Kingdom shall not depart from Judah untill Shiloh come According to that Scripture written in Isa. 7. 16. For before the Child shall know to refuse the evill and chuse the good the land which thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her Kings which Scripture hath been fulfilled from that same time But a word to the Jews exposition of the Scepter to be a rod or persecutions saying that persecutions shall not depart from Judah till Shiloh come This cannot be the meaning of the place for the Jews have had rest oftentimes and that before Shiloh did come at one time they had rest fourscore years Judges 3. 30. againe And the land had rest from warre Jo●h 14 15. And againe the Lord gave them rest round about according to all that he sware unto their fathers and there stood not up a man of all their enemies before them Jos. 21. 44. Jos. 22. 4. 23. 1. And the land had rest forty years Jud. 3. 11. There was rest many a time from persecution and from the rod th●ugh it we but for a season but the Scepter or Kingdome did no● depart from Judah and a law-giver from between his feet ti●● Shiloh came Againe to prove that Jesus is the Christ it is cleer from the hand of God against the Jews for putting him to death What was the reason why they did put him to death but this he did say that he was the Christ the Sonne of God Luke 22. 70. Then said they all Art thou the Sonne of God And he said ye say that I am that is I am he as you say I am the son of God Yea the only begotten Son of the Father and I was with him before the world was Now the Jews did put him to death for his thus owning his own That is for not denying of his Sonship but making himself equal with God therefore did they put him to death Joh. 1● 7. Now God did and doth most miserarably plague them to this very day for their crucifying of him But I say 〈◊〉 he not been the Christ of God Gods Son he would not have laid sin to their charge for crucifying him but rather have praised them for their zeale and for taking him out of the way who did rob God of his honour in that he made himselfe equal with God and was not He would have praised them for doing the thing that was right as he did Phinehas the son of Eleaz●r for executing judgement in his time on the adulterer and adultere●le Numb 25. 8. But in that he said he was the Sonne of God and accounted it no robbery so to call himself Phil. 2. And seeing that they did put him to death because he said he was th● Son of God And in that God doth so severely charge them with and punish them for their sin in putting him to death for saying that he was the son of God it is evident that he was and is the sonne of God and that Saviour that should come into the world For his blood hath been upon them to this very day for their hurt according to their desire Mat. 27. 25. Againe Jesus himselfe doth in his day hold forth that he is the Christ where he saith the time is fulfilled and the Kingdome of heaven is at hand Mat. 1. 15. What time is this th●● Jesus speaks of Surely 〈◊〉 that of Daniels Seventy weeks spoken of in Chap. 9. 24. when he saith Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people to finish transgression and to make an end of sin and to make reconciliation or satisfaction for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to anoint the most ho●y this time that here Daniel speakes of is it that Christ saith hath an end and the argument that he brings to perswade them to believe the Gospel is this the Kingdome of God is at hand according as was prphesied of it by Daniel repent and believe the Gospel Repent and believe that this is the Gospel And that this is the truth of God Consider that Daniel had a revelation of these daies from the Angel of God and also the time in which it should be accomplished Namely Seventy weekes was the determined time of the Messias his comming from the time when the Angel spake these words to Daniel Seventy weekes that is about 490 years if you reckon every day in the said twenty weekes for a yeare a day for a yeare a day for a yeare for so is the holy Spirits way sometime to reckon dayes Ezek. 4. 6. and this the Jews were convinced of when Christ saith to them ye Hypocrites ye can discerne the face of the skie but can you not discerne the Signes of the

is true and given me from heaven by the father of Mercies through the Son of the virgin Mary Mat. 1. 21. who is the way to the father of Mercies Joh. 14. 6. who is able to save to the ut●●rmost all that come to the father by him Heb. 7. 25. Because he that very man with that very body wherwith he was crucified is ascended into heaven Acts 1 9 10. 11. and there ever lives to make intercession for them that come to God by him This is the rock sinner upon which if thou be built the gates of Hell nor Ranter Quaker sin law death no nor the Divel himself shall ever be able to prevail against thee Mat. 16. 16 17. 18. And here I leave thee to the wisdome of the great God who if he hath chosen thee in his Son and brought thee to him and hath made thee by faith to lay hold on him thou needst not fear the divel with his siftings snares wiles and fiery darts wherewith he doth destroy thousands but mayest with the Apostle if thou live in the power and life of the love of God towards thee cry out I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate thee from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord Rom. 8. 38 39. And now Reader if thou be a true Christian I am sure that these be the things that appearto be the glorious substantial truths to thy soul and thou doest not care for that comfort that doth not make this Man the Son of the virgin precious to thy soul 1 Pet. 2. 7. for thou knowest that it is he that hath deliver'd thee from the wrath to come 1 Thes. 1. 10. B●t as for you that are disobedient except you mend your manners you will stumble and fall backwards and be broken and snared and taken Isa. 28. 13. and wonder and perish because you believe not A few words more and so I shall have done and they are words of counsel to thee Have a care thou receive not every Christ that is profered to thee though it may appear very excellen● to thy foolish heart For under the name Christ are men deceived as it is written many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shal deceive many Mat. 24. 5. But have a care that thou receive that Christ that was borne without thee fulfilled the Law in his humane nature without thee spilt his blood without thee is risen againe and ascended without thee and maketh intercession without thee And that he that very man that was borne of the Virgin will come againe in the clouds without thee And this truth must thou receive by that Spirit that he hath promised to send and give to them that aske him And that shall dwell in thy heart and shall shew thee what the Son of Mary the virgin the Son of Man the Son of God the true God hath in his body done for thy soule Joh. 16. 13 14. And if thou receive him in truth then though thou doe not boast nor brag of thy holiness as those painted hypocrites called Quakers do yet thou wilt do more worke for God in one hour then they even all of them can do in all then life time Take my counsel and the Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon thy soul and body Farewel Some Questions to the Quakers Or a few quaeries to those who are possessed with a spirit of delusion in this generation Be ready alwaies to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you 1 Pet. 3. 15. And I beseech you do it in sincerity 1. IF thou sayest that every one hath a measure of the spirit of Jesus Christ within him why say the Scriptures that some are sensual having not the spirit Jude 19. And when Christ tells his Disciples of sending them the spirit he also saith The world can not receive it Joh. 14 17. 2. What is the Church of God redeemed by from the curse of the law Is it by something that is done within them or by something done without them If thou answer it is redeemed from the curse of the law by something that worketh in them Then I ask why did the man Christ Jesus hang upon the Cross on mount Calvary without the gates of Jerusalem for the sins of his people And why do the Scriptures say that through this man is preached to us the forgiveness of sins That is through his blood Eph. 1. 7. which was shed without the gates of Jerusalem Heb. 13. 12. 3. What Scripture have you to prove that Christ is or was crucified within you dead within you risen within you ascended within you 4. Is that very man that was crucified on mount Cal●a●y between two thieves whose name is Jesus the son of Mary I say is he the very Christ of God yea or no 5. Is that very man with that very body within you yea or no 6. Was that Jesus that was born of the Virgin Mary a real man of flesh and bones after his resurrection from the dead out of Josephs Sepulcher yea or no for the Scripture saith he was as in Luke 24. 39. If so then did that man that said handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have I say did that man go away from his Disciples and not into them in his body as these Scriptures declare Luke 24. 39 40. compared with v. 50. 51. also Acts 1. 9 10 11 or did he with that body of fl●sh go into his disciple as some fond dreamers think 7. Hath that Christ that was with God the father before the world was no other body but his Church If you say no as it is your wonted course Then again I ask you what that was in which he did bear the sins of his children If you answer It was in his own body on the tree for so saith the Scripture 1 Pet. 2. 24. Then I ask you further whither that body in which he did bear our sins which is also called his own body was or is the Church of God yea or no again if you say he hath no body but the Church the Saints Then I ask what that was that was taken down from the Cross and laid into Josephs Sepulcher Luke 23. 51. 52. Now I know that as Christ is the head of his Church so the Church is the body of the head which is Christ. But as Christ is the Mediatour between God and men I say as he is Mediator so he is a man 1 Tim. 2. 5. and absent from his Saints in the world as is clear 2 Cor. 5. 6. Therefore as he is a Mediator and a man so he hath a body that is absent from his Church which body is descended from his