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A38823	The Gospel treasury opened, or, The holiest of all unvailing discovering yet more the riches of grace and glory to the vessels of mercy unto whom onely it is given to know the mysteries of that kingdom and the excellency of spirit, power, truth above letter, forms, shadows / in several sermons preached at Kensington & elswhere by John Everard ; whereunto is added the mystical divinity of Dionysius the Areopagite spoken of Acts 17:34 with collections out of other divine authors translated by Dr. Everard, never before printed in English.	Everard, John, 1575?-1650?; Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.; Barker, Matthew, 1619-1698.	1657 (1657)	Wing E3531; ESTC R29421	513,595	936

the soul then and not before expect to hear and see God God is never seen or heard but when all things in us as of us are at rest Those that come and acknowledge him and deny themselves and all they are even all their parts both of Nature and Grace these are come to en●oy their rest these onely keep Subbaths these are they that have overcome and are set down with him in his throne even as he hath overcome and is set down in his Fathers Throne In the evening it is said God came into the Garden and called to Adam in t●e cool of the day Gen. 3. 8. that is when the heat of Adams lust and self-will was over till then lust made such a noise in Adams soul God could not be heard Then the Lord God puts Adam upon the examination of his soul Adam where art thou wh●t hast thou done hast thou tasted 〈◊〉 eaten of thine own will that forbidden fr●it whi●h 〈◊〉 shalt find the very eating or tasting will be death to thee which every soul th●t God hath really spoken to findes true in his own feeling and experience Thus have we run through this hour allotted it may be God may open your eyes that you may see into these things and I pray God you may even far beyond what I am able to express that you your selves may say and feel that this knowledge is that one thing necessary For this is that word which if you believe not will be the savour of death unto death but if believed and received will be the savour of life unto life THE STARRE IN THE EAST Leading unto the true MESSIAH 1 COR. 2. 2. But I determined to know nothing among you save Iesus Christ and him crucified In two Sermons Preached at a Private meeting at KENSINGTON BEloved there are such things In-wrapt and folded up in the sacred Sriptures of God Almighty which being once known he that knows them in a right way he need not with the Apostle here being taught by the holy Spirit deire to know any thing more And because the treasure that is in these words and also in all the words of God is so fast lockt up so that no natural man can come at them he knows nothing of them for he perceiveth not the things of God neither indeed can he for they are spiritually discerned Therefore let us implore and besee●h his help who hath the keys to open the seven seals as it is in the Revelation of S. Iohn He who onely was counted worthy to open the book that He may unlo●k and reveal to us these precious mysteries I determined to know nothing among you c. What doth the Apostle mean by these words was he a man that knew nothing or was he an ignorant in all those other things and therefore sleighted them That because he had no learning therefore sleighted learning No 〈…〉 me leave to tell you He was no Fool he was 〈…〉 he was no Bab●● no not in all that great and ●hiefest learning which was in his time accounted so highly of for he was as great a proficient Therein as most of them all He was brought up as he ●aith of himself at the feet of Gamaliel and he wa● a great man in the learning of the Pharisees who were at that time the onely learned men of the Church yea of the whole world Insomuch that they were had in reverence of all because they thought these Rabbins had all knowledge that these were the onely men to whom God himself opened and revealed himself So that he was counted a madman or a fool one led with the spirit of error and schism that should dare to oppose or speak a word against them Yet our Apostle here being inferiour to none of them all and could have gone their paths to have gotten their estimation in the world if he had then seen any excellency in them as before he did he could have gloried after the slesh as well as they But now having to do with these Corinthians and seeing the vanity of all humane learning without this knowledge he layes all aside and undervalues all as dross and dung and comes to them in wonderful plainness of speech that he might preach to them Iesus Christ and not himself as they did to gain honour and profit in the world and to make themselves great in the esteem of others it was death to them to fail of these ends These they put so 〈◊〉 confidence both Preachers and People in this kind of way and in this learning being onely litterally learned and knowing in the Scriptures onely Externally so that all the world was undervalued to them for so it was at that time All this great fabrick of the world was divided into two parts onely viz Iews and Barbarians if they were not Iews they were Barbarians and Heathens And this kind of learning was then and so alwayes is accompanied with all manner of riches and honour with all the glory and splendour of the world every man bowed to their parts and worth they were presented with gifts and it was accounted a great honour to have them accepted by them they were repaired to at all times As to resolve doubts and give counsel c. they were as Oracles in the peoples esteem generally And he that went not this way was like to lead an obscure beggerly life no body taking notice of him scarce having a hole to put his head in nay He should be sure to be trampled down and cast under foot by these great men by their great blustering and by their great parrs and by their great learning The foxes have holes and the birds of this world have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head Well notwithstanding all this our Apostle sticks not at it but layes all aside learning credit honour and dishonour riches poverty he tramples all under foot and is content to expose himself to whatever their malice could bring about he reposes no confidence in whatever Parts he had equal with them and sayes that he expected and was content to be accounted a Fool and to hide himself and be as one that had nothing in him He will never go about to dispute it out with these great Rabbins that is not the way he knew that would do no good for he had experience that of disputations there was no end for every one stuck so fast and unmoveable to his opinion one to shew his wit and eloquence another to gain honour and riches another because he had declared what he held and being once past the bars of his lips he must not recant and be a flincher and discover his ignorance wherein he had declared so much confidence but must then stand it out to the death so one for one end and another for another mens Ends being infinite and unspeakable so that therein he had no hope Well

inheritance To Caleb Ioshua being made Governour he gave Hebron which he took upon him to subdue and to finish the conquest for Here and there The Enemy had some strong holds So that Cal●b he took Hebron for his inheritance And he undertook He and his friends to assist him that if he could overcome it he should have it to him and his for ever if he could not he should lose it And passing along he came to this City Kiriathsepher It being a City very strong yet of great importance for him he much desired it Caleb makes a stand proclaims That whosoever smiteth this Kiriathsepher and taketh it he promiseth to give him his daughter Achsah to wife it seems Beloved She was One very Amiable and to be desired for her Comeliness and Beauty One worth having and therefore he propounds Her as a Great and full Reward to whosoever taketh it as it is in the verses read And Caleb said Whoever smiteth Kiriathsepher and taketh it to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife We come now to divide the words There is in these two verses two things 1. Onus the work the burthen whosoever smiteth Kiriathsepher and taketh it And secondly Here is Honos the gift or the Reward or the honour To him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife But now let us consider what is all this to us what is Caleb to us or what have we to do with the smiting or taking Kiriathsepher or what shal we be the better for Achsah Calebs daughter I have here you know even now read the first and second Lesson part of this 15. of Ioshua and the other out of 2 Cor. 3. I may boldly say One answers to the other like the two Cherubims This looks forward to that Chapter in the Corinthians and that looks back to this The one is the interpretation of the other But it may be you will say to me That is very strange we see no such thing what is this Chapter to that or that to this for S. Paul tels us there That the letter kils but the Spirit gives life and that They are Ministers not of the letter but of the Spirit And likewise he speaks there of the two Tables of the Law and compares it with the Glorious dispensations of the Gospel as being far more glo●ious If there was so much glory at the Promulgation of the Law which was written but in Tables of Stone and to be abrogated and was also but the ministration of death much more glorious is the ministration of the Spirit written by the finger of God himself in the Tables of our hearts for even that which was made glorious had no glory by reason of that which excelleth in glory And Moses He put on a vail else the people could not behold Him nor Hear him Which vail is still upon the heart and our m●nds are still blinded by reason of that vail which is still upon the heart while we are under the law for to this day remaineth still the same vail untaken away In the reading the old Testament which vail is done away in Christ. But to all this I redudce onely This part of this Chapter now read to unfold and interpret all this And for the present I have made choise of these two Verses to give light to that whole Chapter and that Chapter is the Exposition of this as I before said O how like is my text and every part thereof to those New washed sheep Cant. 4. 2. Every word beareth twins and there is none barren among them Of which two Verses I shall say as Abigal said of Nabal when David came to destroy him Regard not this son of Belial and let not my Lord be angry Nabal is his name and so is he So I may say of this Text as their Names are so are They. Here is Kiriathsepher and Caleb and Othniel and Achsah We will see what Secrets and Mysteries The holy Spirit hath Couched under these vails For as they are in Hebrew they express nothing to us but Read them in English and take off their vail and you may see what honey will come out of the mouth of the eater and out of the strong Sweetness What then is Kiriathsepher In Hebrew it signifies The City of the Book or the City of the Letter We will first interpret them to you into English and then we shall come to shew you what they are To every one of us for it is the office of the Ministers of the new Testament To strive To take off the Vail that every one may come to see His own face in the Scriptures as a man seeth His natural face in a glass In the next place What is Achsah In Hebrew it signifies The Rending of the vail And then what signifies Caleb In the Hebrew it is as much as to say My heart or a perfect heart or a good heart And what then is Othniel In Hebrew it is Gods good time or The Lords fit Opportunity I have Beloved as yet Read the Text to you but in ●ebrew And then it runs as it is written And Caleb said Whosoever smiteth the City Kir●athsepher and taketh it to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife And Othniel the son of Kenaz the brother of Caleb took it and he gave unto him Achsah his daughter to wife and so on But in English it is to be read thus And my heart said or a good heart said That whosoever smiteth and taketh the City of the Letter to him will I give the Tearing or Rending of the vail And Othniel took it as being Gods fit time or opportunity and he married Achsah that is enjoyed the Rending of the vail and thereby had the blessing possessed by Achsah viz. by this Vail being Rent and possessed both the upper springs and the nether springs To him that obtains This rending of the vail to him shall be given the mysteries of the Kingdom of God He possesses full content heaven and all happiness and whatever his heart can wish for as we shall shew hereafter if God permit But in the interim it may be you will say to me Sir but methinks this seems to be a very bold allegory But have patience for I must tell you that not onely in this Scripture but throughout the old Testament from the first of Genesis to the last of the Prophets there runs an Allegory a Mystery a Secret Woof in the Web of the Letter as I may so call it which if you have not the skill and Art to know it that so you may eye it and see it through the letter for it is hid and covered with the letter I will be bold to say it you have not the Marrow the life of the Scriptures in the justification of which I dare live and die I deny not the history of the word It is really true undeniably most certainly true

it and Him for it And yet WE Continually Eat as well as He. O MAN VVho art Thou That dost so Prepare A Rod fo● thine O●n Back and givest Sentence against thine Own Life In Condemning Thy first Father Adam and Pereeivest not That thou art First in the Same Trap Here then Consider Diligently VVhat OUR Will Knowledge and Understanding is Whereof we Boast so much And wherewith we Think we may Come into the Presence of God VVhereas Indeed It is Nothing But The Bitterness of Death And The Fruit of the Forbidden Tree VVho is there Among ALL Living Men That Perceiveth This Or will Learn To put Off Deny Fear and Mortifie or Kill His Own VVill and VVisdom Nay rather VVe Hold it Fast Extol and Value it as Pure Gold VVhen as Indeed It is Eternal Death And In This Misery The Whole VVorld ●yeth sick But VVhere are Those Blessed Redeemed Ones THE TREE OF LIFE WHAT IT IS And why Adam was Shut out Forbidden and withholden from it and not suffered to EAT thereof I Can also be Content there should likewise Outwardly have been in Paradise The Tree of Life as you read in the Scripture Whose Fruit might have been so Seasoned and Endowed by God And How it had that Nature that He who should Eat of it should Live for ever and Never Dye And when Adam had first Eaten of the Forbidden Tree and had Fallen as God foretold into Death it might not Now be That He should be permitted to Eat of the Tree of Life Otherwise he must have Lived for ever And the Word of God If thou eat thereof thou shalt dye the death had been false Moreover God who is meer Love and cannot for ever be angry with His own workmanship did well provide That Man in this Misery Hated of God and an Enemy to Him might not for ever Leada Wretched and Calamitous Life And for that cause he drave him out of Paradise from the Tree of Life into this House of Penance as it were The World And shewed him a Way whereby he might again come out of Death into Paradise To this Tree of Eternal Life But In the mean time He fenced The Tree of Life with a Flying Cherub and a Glittering Sword Lest Adam in this Banishment should Eat Life For it seemed better to the Good God That Man should Dye and so by Death put off this miserable Life and Changing It To be Translated to a better For He knew That Life after this Death Cold Calamity Banishment would be so much more Welcom and He so much more Dear unto God after Victory Therefore God Who cannot Hate Us Ever deals Mercifully with Us Howsoever he handleth Us If we would alwayes take it In Good Part And not Suspect Him to be our Enemy For so is The Nature and Suspicion of Mans Heart Now I do Thus think That for Agreater Testimony The Same thing did likewise Happen In the True Paradise i. e. In Adams Heart As There is The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil Which is the Seed Speech Counsel Knowledge Wisdom and VVill of the Serpent So there also is The Tree of Life The Seed Speech and Counsel of God or of The VVoman And As God and the Devil are Even so are These Two Trees So Contrary The One to the Other That the One brings Life The Other Death And therefore It is Impossible That whoso Eates of the One should at the same Time Eat of the Other or come unto it As being Separated by a Flying Cherub and a Glittering SWORD Thus I Interpret VVinged Sin and Obstinate Disobedience Which is elsewhere called in Scripture A Separation For who so Eats of the Tree of Knowledge of Good And Evil That is He that Greedily Swallowes down and Devoureth Humane and Diabolical VVisdom He Is already separated from the Tree of Life That is from the VVisdom speech and Knowledge of God Neither of these Wisdoms Speeches VVills Knowledges Can indure the Other Neither can One come from the One to the Other So great is the Gulf between them Being as Far Divided asunder as Heaven and Hell He that Eats of the Tree of Life That is Of The VVord of God He is Born of God and cannot Dye No Nor Sin For Their Fruit Doth Eat The Eater and Translate Him into His Own Nature That is Into Life As Elsewhere The Scripture Speaketh Of Eating of Christ His flesh For indeed It is The same Thing To Eat Christ To Live in His Word To Believe To Know God and the like As likewise it is All one to Be in Adam To Live in Adam To Dye To Eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil To Obey the Seed and Word of the Serpent And to become GODS Therefore He that Eats of the Deadly Tree And cleaves to the Word and Wisdom of the Serpent And Being Born of Satan and Affected as men are Lives in Flesh and Blood He cannot Do Well or Please God As Contrariwise The Other Cannot Sin Do Evil or Displease God Therefore He that will have the One Must needs part with The other We must of Necessity Go out of the Wisdom of Man and The Serpent and from The Forbidden Tree That so The Wisdom of the Tree of Life may Enter into Us Adam and the Wisdom of the Flesh must Dye in Us That Christ may Live in us and The Spirit Have the Government The Life of the One is Alwayes The Death of the Other And The Weakness of the One The Strength of the Other No man can serve two Masters And in vain shalt thou strive To Reconcile Couple together and Make Agree God and Adam or Christ and the Serpent Light and Darkness The Old man and the New That the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil planted in the heart of Adam Is the Seed Speech and Spirit of the Serpent And that great Idol ANTICHRIST Sin Death the Devil and the BEAST spoken of in Daniel and the Revelation which is the Greatest and most ordinary Worshiping of Idols VVHat do you think is the BEAST of which Daniel writeth that Resisteth and Blasphemeth the Most High and killeth his Saints What is that Old Serpent that overthrew Adam and Eve What is the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil What is the Shameless King and Antichrist Of which Daniel wrote and P●ul to the Thessalonians What is That many-Headed Monster and the Seven-Headed Beast which the whole world Adoreth Of which is spoken in the Revelation What is Sin What Death What the Devil Himself But every mans own Will Wisdom Reason Religion Righteousness Skill Delight For which cause Paul calleth it Death it self Enmity against God and Folly before God And Saint Iames calls it Earthly Humane Devillish wisdom Because these three are one and the same and that is Devillish which is meerly Humane And contrariwise For Man the Devil Adam and the Serpent are the same and do agree For the Serpent did