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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85461	Saltmarsh returned from the dead, in Amico Philalethe. Or, The resurrection of James the apostle, out of the grave of carnall glosses, for the correction of the universall apostacy, which cruelly buryed him who yet liveth. Appearing in the comely ornaments of his fifth chapter, in an exercise, June 4. 1654. Having laid by his grave clothes, in a despised village remote from England, but wishing well, and heartily desiring the true prosperity thereof.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1307; Thomason E836_1; ESTC R207426	178,733	220

SALTMARSH Returned from the Dead In Amico Philalethe OR The RESURRECTION of JAMES The Apostle Out of the Grave of Carnall Glosses for the Correction of the universall Apostacy which cruelly buryed him who yet liveth Appearing in the comely Ornaments of his Fifth Chapter in an Exercise June 4. 1654. Having laid by his grave Clothes in a despised Village remote from ENGLAND but wishing well and heartily desiring the true prosperity thereof John 11. 25. I am the Resurrection and the Life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the black Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1655. To my honoured and beloved friends in London who in a solitary season in that populous Citie were so great refreshment unto me by their undeserved society WHereas of late I received letters from som of you wherein I read that name which is as an oyntment poured out causing the parties to whom it appeares to fall in love therewith carrying in it a spirit which can produce a reall presence where there is an absence in bodily respects and that not only in respect of divine nature simply considered but also in point of Christian relations and respects which is never destitute of humane considered therein and conversant therewith otherwise the goings forth of the spirits of the Saints could not be peculiar and distinct from that of the wicked which the divine and omnipotent power reachethalso Therefore the Saints communicate in prayers intercessions supplication giving of thanks so as a stranger cannot intermeddle therewith nor with their joy arising there-from And whereas some of you requested mee to write unto you concerning the opening of a portion of the word of God which some years agoe urged my spirit and put me into travell to bring forth but Satan hindered Your letters visited me immediately upon the employment of my spirit in another portion of the word of God which was then the proper strength I walked by which made me to think it might be a refreshment unto you which I could not lay aside till God opened another into which I might enter Neither could wee depart from that place till the cloud removed in-so-much that I was forcibly constrained to employ my selfe about the instruments and services of the Tabernacle to bring the sight thereof unto your selves in the first place And so made bold to set upon the writing of it yea when others slept beeause of my daily occasions and when it was writ I was much urged to endeavour the printing of it that so it might come to more view and being it was written in hast and so would be tedious to read I consented thereto although there is nothing which I have spoken in publique since I saw your faces but I could as freely commend it unto you The occasion of the Ark pitching upon this place which me-thinks looks like Elim in this wildernes where there are twelve fountains of water and 70. Palm-trees Numb 33. 9. For our Apostle writes to the twelve Tribes out of which we may draw plenty of the water of life and there is perfection and fulness of palm trees from which you may gather plenty of branches to carry as signes of victory not only of the abatement of that deluge of wrath but also of overcoming by faith this present world for Faith is the victory whereby we do it I say the occasion of the Arke pitching on this place was this We being met together to exercise our selves in the word of God and prayer there was one who occasionally named this Chap and read some part of it in which action the scope of it seemed to open it self unto me and to deale plainly and faithfully with you my thoughts had never been formerly upon any part of it so as intending to expresse my selfe from it but only as I have read it as other histories and writings of the word of God Whereupon my spirit was moved presently to speak from it what I did receive and immediately uttered to the same effect which I have in the following lines commended unto you out of my love unto you and engagements beyond my expression moved hereunto by your loving christian-like letters joyning themselves unto me like Philip to the Chariot of the Eunuch upon the delivery of it encouraging my heart hereunto which otherwise I had not takenupon me lest it should have been thought a worke not worthy your acceptance But if you please to take the payns carefully to peruse it I doubt not but it may give occasion of further thoughts unto you then can be expressed in so small a volume it may point as with a finger unto such things as to write them the world would not contayn the books the matter being of an infinite and an eternall nature holding proportion with Melchisedech who is without beginning of dayes or end of life Therfore the world cannot contain it unto whom this Scripture as under the motion of the cloud hath brought us where we now abide Heb. 7. For other place of our abode I may not signifie unto you for some of our Neighbours have professed before the state of England that the place of our bodily aboad is a non ens that it hath no being and others have affirmed that we are no people not affording us so much as God gives to the Conies which he calls a people though a small people yet they make their abode in the Rocks and it is that rock of Ages in whom only we desire to be found to take these courtesie a patiently as we do other kindnesses under which we yet abide as in that point of banishment only for such matters as in the following speech we tender unto you Whereas you make mention of a Sermon preached from the Prophesie of Isaiah speaking of the new heavens and the new earth in the restauration of the Church from which it was concluded that such an excellent estate of Religion was to come hereafter as never yet appeared which some could not be satisfied in such Exposition or Conclusion we see it to be not onely the common doctrine but deceipt also of the world not to give Christ a present being but hold men in expectation as in the ancient Jews who when he appears seek his ruine and that is the top of that spirit By new heavens and new earth in that place we understand the state of Christ or of that holy unction or Christianity that as the visible heavens earth to which he alludes make a compleat and fruitfull world even so do God man in Christ make one durable and fruitfull condition wherein righteousness dwells as our Apostle witnesseth which according to that law of the spirit is adorned with infinitely more relations operations and vertues then all the Creations in Heaven and Earth can set forth which hee calls new not with respect unto these visible but with

respect unto that oldnesse of the letter and administrations according to the carnall Command wch the Apostle calls old because it is weak fading and ready to vanish away and so is called the olde heavens the old earth that passe away and that Ministry which exerciseth according to that being ever conscientious of the present want of the glory and power of God in it is constrained to form a time to come which will attayn thereunto or else it could gayn no acceptation in the world but through Conception of hopes which are like the spiders web But the Ministry of the spirit according to that word of life gives present being to the thing it expresseth or else it carries not in it that power of God the nature of whose word was ever so to do and ever will be and they are sayd to be new First because of the ground thereof for they renew themselves only by meanes of that which is antiquity it selfe for in the unity of God and man in the faith of Christ the spirit of God being an infinite fountaine must ever give out it selfe by new operations and not as one in want to gather up againe the same thing in all respects considered in which he hath been formerly exercised no more then a living fountaine gathers up the same water already vented to distribute it againe and by reason of this infinite and eternity of spirit and life the soule of a Christian or this spirituall state and condition in Christ is in an eternall act of newnesse like that new commandement that the Apostle writes of and that old commandement which is from the beginning Secondly they are new according their manner of being for in what point of the Gospel soever Christ is made it stands of as firm grounds of aboad and as impossible to remove as heaven and earth and we know that the very nature of the earth establisheth it selfe in its repayring unto the Center in such sort hath God established the state of his sons daughters and yet when another point of the Gospel is made manifest it is upon like ground but to be taken in as differing a respect and variety of furniture and glory as though it were another world and so in every appearance of Christ it hath his whole and compleat condition comprehended and comprized in the same as the whole world is in the heavens and the earth for Christ or christianity is never piece-meal'd As for example If he be revealed as Father with respect to a Son it hath the whole furniture of heaven and earth the whole estate of Christ as Husband with respect to a Spouse there is the furniture of the whole world for it is Christ who is all in all if as King with respect to subjects there is whole Christ all christianity is to be found there imbodyed and so in all points whatsoever else Christ is not preached as all in every thing no office or operation of Christ but it hath in it whole Christ and so ought to be revealed else we preach a humane Christ and not divine a carnall Christ and not a spirituall And where it is sayd the new heavens and the new earth which I will make the word may as truly be read which I do make or which I have made For it is Jesus Christ yesterday and to day and the same for ever So that as the state of Christ which is the eternall Son must needs remayn so shall the fruitfull condition of this estate therefore their name and their seed must remayn like heaven in name or authority for operation or power and as the earth to conceive bring forth the fruits of righteousness as that which is ever in motion for the renewing of the glory and fame thereof but I doubt not but something in the speech following will give farther light to this point then now we have time to manifest Only note thus much that such Doctrine as sets forth a time to come of more worth and glory then either is or hath been such Doctrine keeps the Manna till to morrow to the breeding of wormes in it Yea it hath in it that worm that dyes not for if Christ our Pass-over be eaten according to the law of the spirit there is nothing to be left till the morning And if it be the bread that comes downe from heaven it must be compleatly eaten at present and there wil be no want to morrow for it fals anew afresh otherwise the word of God that food of heaven is corrupted by reserving that for to morrow which belongs to this present day and in the sixe dayes labour in the operations of God we have plenty to feed on In the seventh as a cessation from all our own works keeping a perfect Sabboth unto God so that the kingdome of Christ is to be declared and whole possession and present enjoyment given and yet it is a Kingdome to come So that wee have it in expectation as to come as well as we fetch it up from that eternall estate of the Son to give it a present being for if wee have it not as from the first and to the last we give it not its present being and then uo Kingdome of Christ for no man can make him the first and the last that is eternize the Son but he must give him a present being without intermission of a moment of time Dear friends let me intreat you to read and consider and lend mee your help in the way of interpretation for there is no lesse need of that in him that hears then in him that speaks in him that reads then in him that writes for the light must shine in him that heares or reads as well as in him that speaks or writes or else it is not fruitfull unto him For we see by that light set up in our selves which God hath made our owne and not as the same light is in another Therefore if you gather any comfortable fruit from what is sayd let it be as your owne worke by the spirit of Christ and not as mine I have only endeavoured to put the Manna into the Arke and there only you shall find it compleatly in the pot like the oyle in the cruse and meale in the barrell lasting to preserve life and incorrupted unto this day Which if any thing that is sayd may seem to direct you unto then I have my reward and so I humbly take my leave and ever remayne yours in all services of love in our only beloved S. G To my much respected and honoured friends in and about Lynne in Norfolke in whom I have perceived grave and joyfull Acclamations at the publication of the Gospel Deare and loving friends YOur carriage towards me or rather towards the truth of God was such when I was for a short time among you that it is a sufficient engagement to bind me over for ever to be yours Doe not thinke that my not

unto thee arise take up thy bed and go thy way into thine house So that to preach the Gospel to the restauration of the soule from the policy that is from the fear terrors and tremblings of the law as at Mount Sinai to bring it unto Zion giving strength to take up that and carry it unto its proper place as that man carried his bed into the proper place which is his house which before had carried him extravagantly and diseasedly abroad wheresoever the Gospel exerciseth its power to raise up any to walk in the way of God before others in prayer or prophesie or any appointment of God according to the nature and season of it as that man is said to walk before them all to their admiration wheresoever the Gosplel is ministred to that effect there is also in that ministration power to forgive sin for the one is of like case and of like difficulty as the other is yea they are both in one act for he that can preach the Gospel to carry sin into its proper place which must be done or else the Gospel is not truly preached he must of necessity remove it from the chosen of God which is the true remitting and passing of it over unto another He that hath power therefore to preach the Gospel to the healing of the Conscience of the palsie sicknesse or tremblings of the law in the dead works thereof or works of death that man hath power to forgive sins on earth for they are inseperable and Christ in that place alluded unto makes them one for first he saith son thy sins be forgiven thee and in the rehearsall of it he saith his speech was arise take up thy bed and walk go thy way into thy house And we know that Christ saith to his Disciples whose sins ye remit they are remitted and whose sins ye retaine they are retained And again what ye binde on earth is bound in heaven and what ye loose on earth is loosed in heaven to walk and work therefore in the things of God according to the power intended by the word of God are of greater concernment then they would think for to preach the Gospel in the revelation of the minde and will of God as to an onely Son or to present our supplications to God as a father from the minde and disposition of an onely son are of no lesse authority and power then to to give sins for to pray with the spirit and to pray with the understanding also that is to pray according to the mystery of Christs meditation and yet with that wisdome and skill of expression as to unfold and explaine it in the minds of others that they may ascend up unto God together therewith as Manoa's Angel in the flame of the sacrifices this and to pardon sin are of like power skill and authority and a like weight lies upon both to whomsoever communicates in them For to pardon sin is not to change or alter the minde of God toward that party but to explaine and interpret the minde of God concerning that party which minde and will of God is the same in that one faith of the Son of God to all the chosen of God and wheresoever it is rightly unfolded and made manifest in the proclamation of peace and reconciliation of God and man in one if the Son of peace be there he accepteth and receivet the same as the right of his inheritance If the Elders pray or prophecy unto health therefore they pray or prophesie to the remission of sins in whomsoeve commucates in the same his sins are forgiven him To conclude this point it concerns us then to know what sin is that we may rightly conceive of it as it is pardonable and also as it not pardonable for there is a sin saith the Apostle John which is not unto death or which is not in death that is it is not in that way of death and there is a sin that is in death I do not say that you shall pray for it that is you shall not pray for the pardon of it because it is not to be pardoned for where Christ is once crucified in the spirit he never is to live in that heart according to the spirit no more then where he is once crucified in the flesh he never lives in that heart according to the flesh Therefore in the next place he exhorts us unto the confession of our faults in the true acknowledgement of them one to another Vers 16. Confesse your faults one unto another and pray one for another that ye may be healed the effectuall fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much In these observe 1. An exhortation consisting of two parts 1. To confesse faults one to another 2. To pray one for another 2. The end wherefore That ye may be healed 3. A reason ground or cause drawn from the nature of prayer which is two-fold 1. It is effectuall 2. It is fervent 4. The qualitie of the person praying that is A righteous man 5. The issue or event of such prayer It avayleth much 1. ANd first for confession of faults sins or oberations from a law For where no law is there is no transgression for sinne is the transgression of a law or as the word is the withoutnesse of a rule Now there is the law of the flesh or carnall commandement which is the law of sinne and death and there is the law of the spirit or power of faith which is the perfect rule of righteousnesse or law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus Now the carnall commandement or perfunctory and fading ordinances may be broken yea abrogated and nayled to the crosse as that which is against us and yet forgiven for every breach or piercing through of the sonne of man that is mans institutions and appoyntments composed by that carnall law shall be forgiven or are forgiven for the disannulling of mans wisdome and in that respect to become a foole is the establishment of Gods wisdome in the removall of all guilt and condemnation from the soule And there is the law of the spirit or of that holy Ghost which if a man speake a word against intentionally or blaspheme and pierce through that is abrogate or make a nullity of it It shall never be forgiven neither in this world nor in the world to come that is neither in the present mind and conscience of him that so doth nor in that holy mind and judgment of Christ from passing sentence against it being so remote and at such a distance from it and contrary unto it for the abrogation of the law of the spirit is no lesse then to disannull that wisdome of God in Christ by which device only the sin and guilt of the sons of men is taken away and no other way for else-where the redemption of the soule ceaseth for ever Confession of sins then one to another This phrase one to another is of like nature as