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A93931	A second champion, or, Companion to truth: Wherein is shewed these particulars, or tenets. 1 Of miracles. 2 The reasons wherefore so few imbrace the gospell. 3 Of the first covenant, and the second covenant. 4 Of the father and the son. 5 Of Heaven. 6 Of Hell. 7 Of Glory. 8 Of faith. 9 Of the resurrection, and the eternall judgement. 10 Of visible worship. 11 A postscript. By Richard Stookes preacher of the Gospell	Stooks, Richard, fl. 1651-1652.	1650 (1650)	Wing S5740cA; ESTC R231910	98,234	235

and our Children and thus the learned Doctors slew the Lord of life rejoycing at his death with mocks and scornes like hellish Doctors and thus you see the Lord himself was dealt with for preaching the Gospel and therefore Christ doth tell his Apostles that they should be hated of all men for his names sake Mat. 10. 22. and now you shall see how his Apostles were persecuted for preaching the Gospel not to speak of their troubles before Christ was put to death but also after as before his death how many times were they in trouble with their Master both by Sea and by Land what straits were they put unto at his death when they were all forced to flie and leave their Master in the mouth of hell who can express their grief in that condition as also after his ascension how were they persecuted when Peter and John were put in prison Acts 4. 3. for preaching the Gospel being scourged and beaten Acts 5. 40. and commanded to preach no more in the name of Iesus and also the killing of Steven stoneing him with stones Acts 7. Together with the killing of Iames with the Sword as Acts 12. and putting Peter in prison and what shall I say of Paul who was persecuted on every side being stoned whipped and imprisoned with the report of the Apostle himself saying they were led as sheepe to the slaughter Rom. 8. 36. and were troubled perplexed persecuted and cast down and bearing in their bodies the sufferings of Christ 2 Cor. 4. 8. 9. 10. The Apostle himself being in the depth of troubles as you may see 2 Cor. 11. where he doth relate that he was in labour more abundant in stripes above measure in prisons more frequent in deaths oft five times of the Jewes receiving 40. stripes save one thrice beaten with rods once stoned thrice suffering Shipwrack and a night and a day in the deep and many suffering more which are related as you may see 2 Cor. ●● 16. 17. and all this he suffered for Christ and his Gospel to shew to all the World that the Ministers of the Gospel have been a persecuted Company in all ages and who were the greatest persecutors in the dayes of Christ and his Apostles was it not you hellish Doctors and Rabbies with the rabble of Priests and high Priest were not you the chief to condemne Christ his Apostles of false Doctrine and chiefest in Councel to act against them that you might fill up the measure of your sinnes and so fall into the anger of the Almighty by doing what you could to hinder the passage of the Gospel and shall not the Gospel condemn you for this at the last day and doth not this resemble our times for who are the greatest persecutors of Christ and his Gospel in these dayes are not you Priests learned Rabbies and do not you follow the steps of your Forefathers to fill up the nature of your sinnes i● persecuting the Gospel and the true wayes thereof by your councel and acting what you can against the truth so that you have been a cause wherefore so few have believed and obeyed the Gospel by seeking all meanes you can to persecute all such a● would imbrace the truth of Jesus Christ so that most men are afraid to profess the Gospel because it is a persecuted way 8. Reason Wherefore so few imbraced and obeyed the Gospel is this even because the wayes of the Gospel are counted heresie and such as profess the Gospel are counted Hereticks and thus it was in former times even against Christ and his Apostles Oh how did the High Priest Scribes and Pharisees bestir them will the learned Doctors bestir them Iohn came neither eating nor drinking and ye said he had a Devill the Lord Christ came eating and drinking and ye said behold a gluttonous man a friend of publicans and sinners and thus you railed against the Person and Doctrine of Christ accusing him of heresie and saying he was a blasphemer and had a Devill and cast out Devills by the name of Beelzebub and were not these your words against the Lord Oh you learned Rabbies accusing the Apostles also that they were ignorant fellowes Acts 4. and forbidding them to preach any more in the name of Christ and seeking all meanes to destroy them by your hellish Councel in saying their Doctrine and Teaching was false and that they did but delude the People how did you Scribes and Pharisees raile against the famous Apostle Paul that glorious Preacher of the Gospel did you not say he was a deluder and turned the World upside-down that his Doctrine was false that he was a Heretick and preached Heresie though his Doctrine were a glorious truth even the Gospel of Christ as you may see in his answer to that hellish crew saying that way that you call Heresie so worship I the God of my Fathers Acts 24. 14. Oh you High Priest and you Elde●s were you not ashamed to accuse Christ and his Apostles of false Doctrine how will you answer it in the day of Gods anger and thou Orator named Tertullus how bravely didst thou act the Devils part in accusing of Paul and his Doctrine calling him pestilent fellow and a mover of sedition throughout the World and a Ringleader of Sects and Heresie shall not that Gospel that Paul taught judge you at the last day how willy on plead then at the Bar of justice when the Gospel shall be your judge And thus you see the reason wherefore so few imbraced the Gospel in those times because the way of the Gospel was counted Heresie and doth not this resemble our times are not Gospel-wayes called Heresie and such as profess the Gospel Here●●●● and all the nick names the Devil can invent to make the way of the Gospel 〈◊〉 in the eyes of the People and who are the chief actors in this thing but the learned of our times who perswade the people as the Scribes and Pharices did that the way of the Gospel is Heresie railing in their Pulpits like furies to put the people in fear least they should obey the truth and stirring up the great ones also to fright the people with their Bulls and therefore it is that so few believe and obey the Gospel 9. Reason is Because the Gospel holds forth separation that Gods people ought to be a separated people in respect of worship from all the people in the Earth which is a way that most men abhorre and therefore it is that so few obey the Truth beca●se separation is a hainous thing in the Worlds Eye though it be a Gospel-truth as doth appear 2 Cor. 6. 14. where we are commanded by the Lord to separate and the Reasons given First that we be not unequally yoaked together with unbelievers for what fellowship hath the righteous way of the Gospel with an unrighteous way and what concord hath the Gospel of light with the way of darknesse or the way of C●rist with the way

a typicall Covenant 7. It was a Covenant of bondage and therefore it was typicall for they were bound to observe a multitude of Lawes and Ordinances under that Covenant besides the offering Sacrifices which was a great bondage and therefore it was a typicall Covenant as you may see Gal. 4. 24. 30. 8. It made nothing perfect and therefore it was typicall for the Law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did in the which hope we draw nigh unto God and so it is disanulled as you may see Heb. 7. 18. 19. and therefore it was a typicall Covenant 9. The first Covenant consisted of Types and shadowes for the Law had a shadow of good things to come and not the very Image of things Heb. 10. 2. and therefore it was a Typicall Covenant 10. The first waketh old and is ready to vanish away Heb. 8. 1. 3 and therefore it was a typicall Covenant 11. There 's a better Covenant comes in place established upon better promises Hebrewes 8. 6. 7. 8. and therefore it was a typicall Covenant 12. The worship was typicall and therfore it was a typicall Covenant for there being a change of the Priesthood there must also be a change of the Law as you may see Hebr. 7. 12. for the first worship was but on foot till a better worship came and then it was to be done away as the tenne words were but a typicall Worship for Thou shalt have none other Gods but me And Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serve and that is this thou shalt worship me according to my Covenant and according to the Lawes of that Covenant for if thou dost not worship me according to my Covenant and according to the Lawes thereof thou worshipest another God and dost not worship the Lord thy God for if thou chusest another way of worship then I have prescribed and change thy worship thou also changest thy God and this is the full intent and meaning of the first Covenant an outward acknowledgement of God to all the world in obeying those Lawes and Ordinances prescribed and set forth by him whereby they did acknowledge him to be their God which worship God did accept of till a better came until the time of Reformation as you may see Heb. 9. 10. and then the Father would send the Son the great Minister of God who did administer a better Covenant and better ordinances to the world and when that way was come they were to live no longer to Moses and his teaching but were to live under the teaching of Christ which the Father did confirme when he said This is my beloved Son hear him Mat. 17. 5. but they rejected the teaching of the Son and did not look to the end of that worship which was abolished by Christ as you may see 2 Cor. 3. 13. and so their minds are blinded unto this day living in the shadow when they might have embraced the substance and therefore they missed salvation because they sought it by the first Covenant and not by the second though they were very zealous to worship God according to the first Covenant as you may see Rom. 9. 31. 32. and so they stumbled and fell as you may see ver 33. And thus you see that the worship of the first Covenant was but to coutinue till a better came in place for when Christ came there was a change as you may see in all his teachings and in his declaring that neither at Jerusalem nor in the Mountaine should they worship God that being but an administration of the letter as you may see 2 Cor. 3. 6. but they should worship in the way of the Gospel which is an administration of the Spirit as you may see 2 Corinthians 3. 8. which is a better worship then the former was being a better Covenant established upon better promises And thus I have given you some Reasons wherefore the first Covenant was a typicall Covenant and now I shall shew you how Christ is said to take away a typicall Covenant and that is in these three respects 1. He pacifies the Fathers wrath for the transgressions of the first Covenant And secondly He doth the worke of the first Coenant And thirdly He takes away the first by establishing the second and so I shall begin with the first And first He pacifies the Fathers wrath for the first Covenant was a Covenant of terrour as you may see Exod. 19. For the Law was added because of transgression till the seed should come Gal. 3. 19. and so terrible was the sight thereof that it made Moses quake and tremble to shew that wrath was gone out against sinne Heb. 12. 20. 21. being a Law of sinne and death Rom. 8. 2. Now Christ comes and takes away the enmity and was made a curse for us being the Lamb of God that takes away the sinnes of the World John 1. 29. and so we are delivered from the Law that being dead wherein we were held Rom. 7. 6. and hath redeemed us from the curse Gal. 3. 13. and hath broken downe the middle-wall of partition and hath abolished and taken away the Law of enmity Eph. 2. 15. 16. by blotting out the hand-writing of Ordinances and all the Jewish worship which was against us and hath spoiled or killed that enmity that was between God and as by reason of sinne and hath made a free passage between God and our souls having conquered all oppositions Col. 2. 15. 16. that thereby we might come with all boldnesse to the throne of grace Heb. 4. 16. and therefore it is that Christ hath taken away the first Covenant because it was a Covenant of bondage and the Ordinances thereof and so he gives us right and freedom to imbrace a Covenant of love and mercy that is more easie and comfortable to us Secondly He hath taken away the first Covenant in doing the work of the first Covenant for the first Covenant did require a perfect work of a perfect man but there was ●one that was able to do a perfect work for the Apostle saith they were all gone astray and were all gone out of the way so that there was none that did good no not one as Rom. 3. 12. So that none were able to do the work of the first Covenant and therefore Christ was to come to do the worke of the first Covenant being a perfect man without spot or blemish and so he was able to do a perfect worke to fulfill the righteousnesse of the first Covenant For the first Covenant exacted a worke of righteousnesse and holinesse which none were able to perform till Christ came who when he came did all that the first Covenant did exact in doing such works as never man did and so fulfilled the whole Law and all the righteousnesse and holinesse thereof and so he is the end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that believeth Rom. 10. 4. And therefore he

Crowning him with Thornes and doing him all the disgrace that they could who was led as a sheep to the slaughter and did stand up to maintain the Doctrine that he delivered 〈◊〉 the mouth of the Father to his death that it might appear to all the word that that he had delivered was truth and for to indicate his doctrine he was ready to lay down his life and was ready to seale the truth with his bloud and as the first Covenant was sealed and confirmed with the bloud 〈◊〉 ●uls and of goats even so he 〈◊〉 willing ●●d ready to seal and confirme the Covenant of grace and glory with his own bloud and so the bloud of Christ is called the bloud of the Testament Covenant or Will of God ●●d thus to know the Lord Jesus Christ i●●●●rnall life Seventhly it is life eternall to know Christ in his resurrection from death to life so he became the more glorious in that he conque●●d all his enemies and destroyed those that thought to have destroyed him for he said unto death I will be thy death and he conquered the grave and he said unto the grave give up he overcame sin the world and the devill for he loosed the powers of darknesse and he conquered principalities powers and made a shew of it openly Colos 2. Yea he conquered proud flesh to the terrour of all ●is enemies and thus Jesus Christ rose from death to life and was more famous in his suffering then before in loosing the pains of death Acts 2. 24. for it was impossible that it should be holden of it the Father having before promised That he would not leave his soule in grave nor suffer his holy one to see curruption Psal 16. 10. being the first fruits of them that sleep and a sure evidence of the resurrection of the dead being raised up by the mighty power of God that as Christ was raised up so also shall we by the same spirit who raised up Jesus who is gloriously ascended up into heaven as a fore-runner for us for he that was made a ●little lower then the Angels is crowned with glory and honour so that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confesse him yea those that pierced him being made the Judge both of the quick and the dead to the joy and salvation of his friends and to the destruction of his enemies and thus to know him is eternall life Eightly To know him as he is God is eternall life for when he had done the will of the Father had so gloriously confirmed the Gospell by his suffering and confirmed the truth with his bloud when that heavenly na●ure was made subject to anger when 〈◊〉 sweat water and bloud making strong cries and supplications with tears unto him that was able to deliver him and was heard in the thing that he desired and when he said My God my God why hast thou forsaken me and when he said Father into thy hands I commit my spirit and so he suffered as a lamb without spot and blemish in fulfilling all the prophesies that the Prophets prophesied of him to fulfill the Scriptures and the mind of the Father when he said O Father not my will but thine be done that he might accomplish all that was written of him to do that thereby he might finish the glorious work of the Gospell and establish an everlasting Covenant sealing and confirming it with his own bloud being the bloud of the everlasting Covenant Heb. 10. 29. chap. 13. 20. and for all those heavenly acts of the Son the Father raises him from the dead For he was raised up by the mighty power of God as the God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a tree Acts 2. 24. 32. chap. 3 13. 15. chap. 5. 33. 31. And thus you see the Father raises him from the dead in a glorious manner and makes him a God and gives all power into his hands as you may see Mat. 28. 18. and so the Son is God by office being the great and chiefe officer of God in being made heir of all things Heb. 1. 1. 2. and this was prophesied as in the Psal 110. 1. where the Prophet saith The Lord said unto my Lord sit thou at my right hand untill I make thine enemies thy footstool Now Davids Lord was Christ and Christs Lord was God as doth appear in Heb. 1. where the Father saith Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee and again I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me a Son and again When he bringeth his first begotten into the world he saith and let all the Angels worship him And of the Angels he saith who maketh his Angels spirits and his Ministers a flame of fire but of the Son he saith Thy-throne O God is for ever and ever a Scepter of righteousnesse is the Scepter of thy Kingdom for thou hast loved righteousnes and hated iniquity therefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the oile of gladnesse above thy fellowes and thus the Father hath exalted him above the Gods saying Sit thou on my right hand untill I make thine enemies thy footstool Psal 110. 1. For God the Father hath made him the God of all things and so the Father calls him the everlasting Father the Prince of peace and hath put the Government upon him and of his Government there shall be no end for God the Father will perform this Esay 9. 6. 7. The Spirit of God the Father being upon him that he might judge the righteous in mercy and the wicked in judgement Esay 11. 4. And thus the Father hath crowned him with glory and honour for it hath pleased the Father that in him should all fulnesse dwell for he is the fulnesse of the Godhead the Father having made him God of all things both in heaven and earth and now the Son is to rule till he have put all things under his feet Now the last enemy is death for he hath put all things under his feet but the Son shall subdue and conquer death and shall reign till he hath put down all rule and all authority and power and then cometh the end when he shall deliver up the Kingdome to God even the Father and be subject to him that so God the Father may be all in all things 1 Cor. 15. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. And thus you see that God the Father hath given all things to the Son and hath made him a God till the end of all things till all enemies are conquered by the Son and then shall he give up the Kingdome to the Father again and be subject to him that God the Father may be all in all and thus to know Christ is eternall life Now the use that I make of all this is this It sheweth the great exceeding love of the Father to us in revealing his mind and will to a

prepared of old and all the wicked and ungodly shall go down to Hell and Christ shall say Go you cursed into a place prepared That there is a condemnation doth appear for these Reasons 1. From the essence or being of God himself who is so pure and glorious in his nature that he abhorrs the very thoughts of sinne being as opposite as light and darknesse that as he loves nothing more then goodnesse so nothing is so odious in his sight as sinne and wickednesse So that being so opposite to the essence and being of God as not to enjoy his presence therefore there must be a deprivation or separation between God and sin and so there is a condemnation 2. Because God hath opposed sinne at all times as the greatest enemy to all goodnesse and hath been an enemy to sin ever since he was in being and hath proclam'd it to be his greatest enemy under all his Dominions and hath shewed his displeasure against it from the beginning in setting all his heavenly host against it and proclaiming open war against it for ever as never to enjoy his presence but to abide his displeasure for ever and therefore there is a condemnation 3. All that is opposite to God shall at last be condemned what is more opposite to God then sin and sinners in opposing his power and goodnesse rejecting and despising his holinesse and seeks to make God and his wayes contemptible and therefore God will condemne sin and the punishment of sinne shall extend as far as the wickednesse of it and that a condemnation for ever and ever 4. Sinne is an open en●●●● against God in destroying his works and reviling and blaspheming his great name and seeks to rob him of his honour to over-throw his truth and people and doth abhorr all the wayes of God being a continuall enemy against him and his goodnesse teaching people to deny him to be God and to deny his name greatnesse and hath sought to destroy and rob God of his being and therefore God doth declare that he will punish sin for ever and condemn it from his presence for evermore 5. God hath declared that he will condemn sinners as well as sin and therefore there is a condemnation even the Angells that fell are reserved in chaines of darknesse till the great day and shall never be delivered from the wrath to come which makes them fear and tremble and how darest thou then proud man say there is no Hell doth not the Devil delude thee that thou mayest at last lye under the same condemnation 6. If there be no condemnation then the condition of the wicked is better then the condition of the people of God then in vaine do they serve God if the wicked who walke in all the wayes of wickednesse and commit sin with greedinesse and accomplish all their wicked desires if they shall not be condemned then all our holy walkings are in vaine but what can be more contrary to GOD then this Doth not GOD abhorre such thoughts as these and declared that he will put a difference betweene those that serve him and those that serve him not Malachi 3. 18. and therefore there is a condemnation 7. If there be no condemnation to what purpose are the Scriptures set forth if they shall be saved that disobey them as well as those that obey them then the Scripture is of little use but the Scripture will tell you at the last day that it is in force to condemn you 8. If there be no condemnation then the Devills shall be saved and then wickednesse shall be asmuch honoured as goodnesse and then it would be best to walke after our own wayes and take all the pleasure we could in this life if there be no condemnation but neither sinne nor sinners shall escape the judgement of GOD and therefore there is a condemnation 10. The Prophets do declare that there is a condemnation that all the wicked and all Nations that forget God shal go down to hell Psal 9. 17. and the wicked shall perish Psal 37. 20. and the hope of the wicked shall perish Prov. and Tophet is prepared of old for the King as for the begger Esay 30. 33. for there is no peace to the wicked saith our God Esay 48. 22. there is no peace saith my God to the wicked Esay 54. 21. and those that will not obey I will utterly destroy Jer. 12. 17. For I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings saith the Lord Jerem. 21. 14. and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you and a perpetuall shame which shall never be forgotten Jerem. 23. 40. And behold the whirlewind of the Lord goeth forth with fury a continuing whirlewinde it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked the fierce anger of the Lord shall not return untill he have done it and untill he have performed the intents of his heart in the latter dayes ye shall consider it Jerem. 30. 23. 24. And the day cometh that shall burne as an oven and all the proud and all that do wickedly shall be burnt up saith the Lord of hosts Mal. 4. 4. And what need I bring more Scriptures seeing all the Prophets are full in this to shew that there is a condemnation 11. Christ and his Apostles will tell you that there is a condemnation doth not Christ say this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and they love darknesse rather then light John 3. 17 And he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed on the Son of God ver 18. And the word that I have spoken shall judge you at the last day John 12. And when he shall say to those on his left hand Go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devill and his angels Mat. 25. 41. And that they shall go into everlasting punishment vers 46. And that many are called and few are chosen And the Apostle saith Tribulation and anguish upon every soul that doth wickedly Rom. 2. 3. And that God shall judge all men by the Gospel and that Christ shall come in flaming fire to render vengeance to all that obey not the Gospell who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord 2 Thes 1. 8. 9. And many places more might be brought to prove that there is a condemnation 12 Doth not your conscience tell you there is a Hell doth it not accuse you for all your actions will it not be as a thousand witnesses against you how will you satisfie conscience for if our conscience condemne us God is greater then our conscience Doth not conscience register up all your actions will it not tell you one day you must be brought to an account and judged according to your deeds for Solomon saith A wounded conscience who can bear When it comes to accuse you at your death and sets your sins in order before you it wil tel you there