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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

men so much trouble themselves about a personal Reign of Christ here upon earth if they saw that the Chief and Real fulfilling of Scriptures were within them And that whatever is externally done in the world and expressed in the Scriptures is but Typical and Representative and points out A more spiritual and saving salvation and a more Divine fulfilling of them For this is no more Then to ask as the Sons of Zebedee did to sit one at his Right hand and the other at his Left in his Kingdom And with the Disciples to expect a Temporal Restoring the Kingdom to Israel but Christ takes them off from all those things and saith My Kingdom is not of this world for them would my servants fight to obtain this their Kingdome but the Kingdome of heaven is within you for men may have their part in these external Powers Scepters Crowns and Kingdoms and have no part in Christs Kingdom Therefore all those thoughts are but Literal and low and poor and childish but let us mind such a Kingdom wherein if we have but the least part the least share that if we be but Door-keepers then we are Happy for ever and shall never perish neither in this world nor in that to come And let us look upon all those Scriptures they alledge as fulfilled to the Church spiritually in all ages Verily there be some standing here which shall not taste of death till these things be fulfilled And then whether that come about they speak of or no it matters not or if it do or should be fulfilled literally either for the pulling down of Antichrist the Pope externally or for the thousand years of Christs Personal Reign yet we are not Here to Rest in the external fulfilling of them but plus ultra let us look beyond all these things These things may be and yet Christ not exalted in thee nor Antichrist pulled down in thee And if they be not done in thee and in me what is all to us But I will hold my self at this time rather to the point in hand concerning Christ being crucified IN man for to look upon those actions and prophecies only as to be fulfilled externally is but a knowing Christ after the flesh and to please the outward man of which the Apostle saith Hence forth I will know no man after the flesh no though I had know Christ after the flesh yet henceforth will I knew him no more Of our hope and belief in this kind of fulfilling the Scriptures spiritually we are sure we need not nay we shall not be ashamed because we are sure we shall not be disappointed This is the body The Substance the other is but the Figure the Shadow And those actions being done Spiritually they are more truly done then those that are done Temporally and corporally for if he did suffer then in the time that he lived upon earth in the daies of his flesh as he did He suffers now herein more truly and really for that suffering was but the shadow of these sufferings These are The Sufferings indeed His other sufferings are not worthy The Name of sufferings to these Yet be sure The Godhead cannot suffer by no means And therefore if God in you have brought the knowledge of Christ to this to see all these things to be within you And to suffer with him Internally then is your knowledge right Sufferings with Christ in the outward man are nothing to these sufferings namely thus for a man to lay down his own will to cross himself to forsake and Empty Himself as Christ did herein lie the Great and unconceivable sufferings of Christ as the Apostle sets them down in Phil. 2. 4. He that was Lord of all became least of all He Emptied Himself Poured out all his glory as the original renders it and became as a servant was content to be abased and trampled on by his own creatures Herein was Sufferings indeed Herein lies The MYSTERIE of the Gospel of Christ His other sufferings or any External sufferings in the Saints are not worthy to be named the same day with THESE Sufferings For If once you come to these sufferings then down with parts down with our own excellencies and endowments both of nature and grace Babel within us must bethrown down then shall we come to be nothings in our own esteem Behold Herein is the sufferings and patience of the Saints and whatever else we suffer if we suffer not thus we suffer not with Christ we are not acquainted with Christ Crucified For if we know never so much of an External Christ of an Outward Christ and of Outward sufferings without this it will do us no good But I beseech God That you may observe All within you How Christ is conceived within you and when he offers himself to the birth Observe when those Commotions and Hurly-burlies are within you then look up and know that the birth is at hand The kingdom of God is at hand Your Redemption draweth nigh That you may see how you are the men that have killed and crucified Him and that he will be exalted and lifted up in you And then being once come to this That light which hath discovered Thus much of the work of Christ within you will not leave you but bring you further and further so that you shall go on From strength to strength and dig up fountains of wonder and comfort till you come and appear before God in Sion Then shall ye be brought by His power and strength And by his Mighty workings in you to stand in awe of him And now To look Altogether to his counsel and direction ceasing any longer to Guide your selves so that This mans will is quite altered and turned up●●de down As for example Suppose Two men alike Vile coming into a room where the King is Behind the Hangings The one He is aware of the King because he knows he is there but the other knowing nothing he lashes out into his own idle foolish frothy talk he talks any thing he speaks Trenchmole as the Proverb is That is He observes no rules but his own will and fancy He behaves himself Rudely and Unmannerly but the other he observes himself and his carriage because he knows The king hears him and observes him Now The king He is as near to the one as to the other but here is the difference The One sees him and Trembles before him but the other sees him not and so thinks he may do what he list But if so be That the King please to discover himself to this man and to let him know That he was an eye and an ear-witness to all his behaviour Then he falls down with trembling and fear and judges himself and his own loose actions and submits himself to the will and pleasure of the King So my brethren Christ Jesus in regard of his Essence he is as near one creature as another as near the wickedest

all the good things he hath promised we shall say by experience Now we know that heaven and earth shall pass away but not one tittle of his word hath failed We shall then see All Solomons Love-songs fulfilled and never till then And yet Beloved all these things are but dark shadows to the Truth and The Things themselves But to conclude We run over these things for time hastens Those that are brought to this condition To have the vail Rent before their faces They shall see Such things as I am not able to express For eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither ever entred into the heart of man those glorious things which God hath prepared to entertain To Feast such self-denying souls which are both Full Satisfying and Ravishing contentments Beloved these are such things as cannot be enjoyed Seeing them by feeling till the vail be Rent But yet know this t is Othniel that takes this City t is The Lords good time or fit opportunity We cannot take this City nor marry Achsah Calebs daughter when we would but we must wait Gods opportunity when he pleases to give it no● in our time but in his time nay we cannot so much as hasten that time When we shall have power to smite Kiriathsepher and marry Achsah no more then a woman in travail by all the means and industry she can use can hasten the time of her delivery We must wait the time Till God reveal for we must take it When he will give it And As He will give it by degrees time after time line upon line and precept upon precept And so We w●iting in Gods way He will Reveal and we shall come to understand The Good Will of the Lord One time after another Now A little and then A little line upon line that so you may come To glorifie God your heavenly Father Not that you may bring Honour or Profit to your selves though This be our greatest Honor and profit or take the praise to your selves as though by Your power you had smitten the City or married Achsah And so possessed the Upper and Nether springs the letter and the Spirit Thus to do is not to smite the City You as yet have not smitten it this is not The power of God this is but Your selves this is but by the power of flesh this is but by the power of Satan in us but here is the misery of the Sons of men they are ready to think and believe that they have smitten the City when t is Nothing less they think they know as much as can be known and Glory in this and so look for and give praise and Honour to themselves And if Any go beyond them if they cannot fathom what you say presently they cry out upon it as an Error and no body must know more then they and they must have the honour and praise of all they must and will be sure to keep men within their compass and knowledge always holding them in the letter in the Rudiments in the Pedagogies and in the shadows of Religion and cannot indure nor bear that men should be brought up to perfection to possess those Plerophorias those Full Enjoyments prepared for them that so they may be delivered and set at liberty from under the Law and from the killing Letter From Bondage and thraldom that they may come to receive The inheritance of Sons and Freemen h●t so the glory and praise of All may be to God Almighty none to them who hath given power to smite Kiriathsepher the City of the Letter that it may be unto us DEBIR The Word of God and so reveal unto us things Unutterable and unspeakably glorious Even The hidden Manna and the Living Waters to nourish us to Everlasting life Where the Glory of God is the light of that Temple whose brightness you shall see so far as you are able to Receive where you shall have Safety from all your Foes you shall see and behold their Ruine where you shal have the company comfort of all the Saints And God himself shall strive to Fill and if it were possible and Glutt you with happiness Where the City Gates are built with Pearls The streets paved with gold the walls of Precious stones the Temple in this City Is Almighty God Himself and Kings and Princes shall be but Vassals and cast out and nor regarded as such Where the River springs from under the Throne and Hill of God the Water clear as Chrystal The Banks set with Trees of Life Where your Chear is Ioy your Exercise Singing the song of Moses and the Lamb your Duties praising the Subject God the Quire consisting of Angels and Saints the Songs Hallelujahs Rev. 19. 3 4 6. Where there is no more need to fear that your Eyes shall be dimmed with Tears or your Ears Affrighted with Cryes or your Senses disturbed with Pain or the Heart Damped with Sorrow or the Soul Ever Surprized by death VVhere there is All God and No Evil there is No Persecutors None to Claim your Possessions from you None To Envy your Happiness the Rich cannot be Robbed Nor Kings shall not be Flattered VVhere there is Possessions without Impeachments Seigniories without Cares Length of yeares without decay of Strength Love of All without Ie●lousie of any Greatness of STATE without Conscience of Corruption Where we shall be Ravished with Seeing Satisfied with Enjoying And Secured for Retaining Beloved All these things are Very true True In the Letter But far more true Taking it All as meant Spiritually There are Such Things as These Bu● infinitely more Spiritual Divine and Transcending Such things As These and whatever else The Heart of man can Imagine Are but Poor Things to what we shall there Have and Live with and Live in viz. In Heaven The Beginnings whereof are given you Here as an Earnest and First Fruits For Heaven is Nothing else But Grace perfected T is of the same Nature with that you Enjoy Here For He that is United and made ONE with Jesus Christ by Faith Hath A True and REAL Glimpse of those Ravishing Glories And Delights which he shall for ever Enjoy But you must Wave All Carnal Sensual and Worldly Enjoyments And look upon the Highest Chiefest and Rarest here To be But Shadows and Dark Resemblances of those Blessed Good things which we shall then Enjoy For Ever and Ever THE TWO MIGHTY AND Wonderfull TREES OF EDEN In the Garden of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ELOHIM Incognita Vnknown Ever since Man was driven out of Paradise until Admitted to Return in Again viz. THE TREE of KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD and EVIL AND The TREE of LIFE Taken out of A Book Called The LETTER And The LIFE Or The FLESH And The SPIRIT Translated by Dr. EVERARD THE TREE of KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD and EVIL What it is I Will not much contend with them that will have The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as