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A59934 [Evangelion aionion eis t aionch] doxotaton, or, A glimpse of gospel glory. The first part together with a short but pithie treatise of Mr. E.D. shewing that Peter was never at Rome : to which is subjoyned as an appendix some pregnant collections by ... H. Nelson ... to a like purpose. Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?; E. D., Mr.; Nelson, H., 17th cent. 1661 (1661) Wing S3404; ESTC R25256 86,334 226

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shining forth of Gods most free and infinite grace unto men and Angels here and hereafter which as our Saviours expression is to all single-eyed beholders is obvious to be discerned yea there is no part of the foundation or fabrick of the whole work wherein it doth not wonderfully shine out to such soules in their better temper at least which if it do not unto any at least when they are themselves it is because they are not as in the Text transformed into the same Image if the glory shining in the work of the Creation when that was finished was the reason then wherefore the Lord blessed the seaventh Day Sabbath and hallowed it that his people might have a weekly opportunity to worship and celebrate his praise for the innumerable benefits conferred on them by Creation then how much more may the glory shining much more brightly when Christ Jesus our Lord having finished the whole work of redemption by his resurrection gloriously triumphed over all adverse powers of darkness occasion him the Lord of the Sabbath to put it over to the first day and is justly therefore by his holy spirit intitled to himself the Lords day our Christian Sabbath Rev. 1. 10. even when in the highest raptures he communicated so divinely to that beloved Disciple the great things to be accomplished in reference to the Church and her enemies to the end of the world now as the perfected glory of the Saints hereafter shall swallow up the inchoate glory here or as the glory of the Lord our redeemer seems to ecclypse the lustre of the glory of the Lord our Creator as the shining light of the sun doth the brightness of the Moon when they appear both together in our hemisphere even so is the glorious forme and beauty of this work transcendently above the other Fifthly The largeness of the time or continuance allotted for this work above all the other excellent illustrations of it First Creatio fit in instanti so the Learned Creation is done in an instant the whole work was finished and celebrated in a weeks space at first sustentation is the continuance of that for a limited time and Gubernation here is but while this course of nature or Creatures or rather supportation in their rankes from God is so variously disposed of in such wonderful manner after the good pleasure of his will but the time allotted for the contriving effecting applying confirming carrying on and perfecting this most glorious work of Gospel grace is not only a long time but all time and not only time but eternity too yea all eternity in reference to the eternal and coequal Trinity of persons in the unity of the divine nature Now this illustration of the length of time for raysing a work may more clearly appear from a threefold evidence First of nature the baser sort of creatures soon come to their height of stature as is observable in varieties of sorts of plants and beasts and fowls Secondly in Reason the more excellent the nature of a work and the more accurately it is to be wrought the longer time is required to provide for it to accomplish it Thirdly in experience both of Nature Art by all which the long continuance for the raysing of this work may be manifest above all the rest which is an other of its excellencies unto which let us now adde the Sixt Namely in regard of the way and manner of the raysing of this work by the constant shining out of the wonderful glory of the Father Son and Holy ghost all the time it is in raysing Oh the unspeakeable splendor of the wisdome and power of the grace and goodness of the mercy and truth in reference to all the holy persons in that undivided Trinity made evident therein from the beginning of the world and shall be to the end thereof in such glorious mnnifestations continually breaking forth through all successions of Ages as can never be sufficiently admired nor much less celebrated with praises both from men and Angels in all things that concern the way and manner of the revealing exhibiting as will be of the perfecting of that most precious grace from and by those sacred persons derived Whether we respect the sufficiency the sureness the efficacy the happiness in such way and manner continually held out and communicated unto the world First sufficient to make up all the Creatures wants to answer all their doubts Secondly Sure to remove all their fears settle all desirable security to them Thirdly Effectually to carry on against all obstacles and to accomplish all and more then they could hope for or desire Fourthly To administer what ever good they are capable of receiving to make them perfectly blessed let your thoughts be inlarged upon these particulars I must leave them as the dry bones in Ezekiels Prophesie till the Spirit causeth flesh to come upon them to cover them for I feare to be tedious even in a subject so precious and pleasant to such as have interest in it but therefore not pleasant unto others because they find not any to themselves yea they know it not and therefore they desire it not yea they are not willing to know it least they must loose those Idols wherein they take more pleasure But thus much at presen● of Gods own undertaking in the most sutable manner to all his own most blessed purposes respecting both himself and his creatures according to his own good pleasure as we shall indeavour afterwards to shew and is evident from all passages to this purpose in holy writ unspeakeably above what is to be found in any other his great and glorious works here being a way for the magnifying of the riches of his free grace only revealed in his word which is therefore magnifyed above all his name as the Psalmist saith remarkably Ps 138. in such a concurrence of all Divine excellencies as is no where else to be found since there and there only we have the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4. 6. Seaventhly In regard of the subordinate meanes of raising up this work not here to speak of the chief the holy Spirit as proceeding from the Father and the Son for we shall have occasion to speak of him afterwards as the Lord the Spirit the prime efficient cause of the efficaciousness of all other meanes but only of his inferior means such as Angels men extraordinarily inspired ordinarily qualified ordinances sanctified and providences and many other means o● Creatures sometime at his pleasure blessed to be in some sort instrumental in this work For sometimes to use Angels in it was an honour to it but to have used them alwayes would have been terrible to weak and fraile Creatures besides otherwise incommodious to them when as to use mans ministry is natural familiar affecting as being of the same nature and lyable to the same miserie capable of the same happiness
man to appease thereby his Fathers wrath against him and restore him into a State of grace And that such his goodness might not be cast away as that before conferred by Creation upon him was God the Father and the Son will send the holy Spirit who proceeds from both by whose all-powerful efficacious grace that most glorious manifestation of God the Fathers incomprehensible goodness towards lost man and that most gracious manifestation of God the sons most tender love and compassion towards lost man this work of salvation should be irresistably and most effectually carried on by informing the mind reforming the will conforming his heart and soul to the will of God and confirming the whole man in his reformed condition and all this by bringing home this gospel discovery of the Glory of the Lord spoken of in the Text and by that his peculiar work and undertaking as we shall endeavour by the assistance of the said Lord the spirit in due time to shew from the last words of the Text. Now according to this three-fold manifestation of the glory of the Lord from the beginning have all the most glorious dispensations of the grace of God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost ever since been derived revealed communicated applyed preserved conserved rewarded in the souls and persons of all Gods faithfull servants in all Ages and so will be to the end of the world and was but mens Religion setled upon this foundation of Gods own laying and steered in a right course to his own end that as all grace is from himselfe so the glory thereof might be given to him alone how might the Church of God be setled in truth and peace But let us a little view the most radiant beames of this incomprehensible love this supernatural grace this divine Glory of God the Father Sonne and holy Ghost as from time to time they are darted out of Heaven and powerfully sent home into the souls of poore sinners upon earth together with the reflexions of those radiant beames in and upon those poor sinners souls for I speak not here of those close stopped bottles that will suffer no good liquor to fall into them though much fall upon them yea though cast into a sea of water yet none can enter because they are close stopt up or such dark Lanthorns that receive no light though they be set in the bright Sun-shine at noon-day but of such as like burning or looking glasies in the beholding of this glory as in the Text receive from the Sunne of Righteousnesse that shines most gloriously in their Hemisphere only as the light of old did in Goshen when thick darknesse was in Egypt receive I say from him both light and heate and brightnesse and are transformed into the same Image Where should I begin to speak of the glory of their transfiguration or when should I make an end Look upon their birth it is celestiall it is divine it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is from above it is from God so they are not only a truly noble or Royall which the vaine world is apt too much to prize alone but they are also a reall divine Race 2 Pet. 1. 4. But this glory of theirs being that of the Queens Daughter is mainly within this spirituall life of theirs is hid with Christ in God Col. With this new birth and life is conveyed a divine and spiritual illumination into their souls with this is inseparably conjoyned a particular spiritual application of every sacred truth by that illumination discovered out of the word of God by any means whereby God sets it before them from this application proceedeth love which labours to manifest it selfe in an affectionate constant endeavour of all due thankfulnesse and obedience to his divine Majestie in the improvement of all grace received and all gracious dispositions and affections and in the performance of all duties toward God and man and so when the holy Spirit hath taken possession Christ sits regent in all their souls where he hath a spiritual and invincible Kingdome of which there shall be no end whose Subjects shall never be traytors nor revolters from his Divine Majestie bribes shall not allure them terrours shall not fray them they are sworne feodaries to him and will approve themselves his liedg Subjects their Rule and Law is Gods word their Strength is his grace and joy their Teacher and counseller and comforter is his sacred Spirit their Tower of defence and rock is the rock of Ages their Guard the holy Angells their Annuitie or portion the good of the earth the ayre the Seas here in their non-age their present inheritance the grace of God the favour of God the peculiar providence of God the promises of God the Covenant of God with all the benefits of redemption purchased for them by that infinite ransome of the blood of Christ needfull for them in their pilgrimage here on earth till they enter the possession of the heavenly and eternal Kingdome of Glory And this constant course of glorious Gospel grace God the Father Sonne and holy Spirit have manifested and magnified themselves by to the true and invisible Church throughout all generations to this very day though in different manners and degrees and still will doe so to the end of the world and this glory of the Lord is so great in the eyes of true believers that if all the excellency of temporal glory not only of the Kings and Kingdoms of the world but the Glory of the Sunne Moone and Starres were united into one it would seeme to them obscure and contemptible in comparison of this and so full of sound comfort is their interest in this glorious grace that were they offered the wealth the pleasure the honour the favour of men the confluence of all the seeming worth of the world without this they would in their right temper refuse and reject them all as an incompetent offer yea faithfull Moses and all the Martyrs in their times would rather chuse to suffer affliction with the people of God to injoy this than to have the pleasures of sin for a season for oh the pearless worth of their secret but certain injoyment of the favour of God their secured interest in Christ the guidance the teaching the comfort of the holy Ghost his life-giving grace his grace-working Ordinances the spiritual pleasures of his house their communion with himselfe the satisfaction the securitie the soul-ravishments of his love with the reflections thereof their love againe to his Divine Majestie that twofold righteousnesse of Christs imputed and theirs endeavoured that peace of conscience that passeth understanding that joy in the holy Ghost unspeakeable and glorious in which the Kingdome of Heaven doth consist as the Apostle witnesseth Rom 14. 17. The Glory indeed of this Kingdome is not discerned but by the spiritual eye of faith the happinesle thereof is not injoyed but in the particular application of a truly believing soul herein
Christ shews wonders among the dead as himselfe so strongly asserteth Joh 5. 25. Verily verily I say unto you the houre is coming and now is that the dead shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God and they that heare shall live Hereby Christ gaines a soveraigntie above all that is called God as the Father promised Psal 2. 8. He hath the heathen for his inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession neither can he be deprived of his Subjects the gates of Hell shall not prevaile against them no not of the weakest by the strongest none shall be able to pull any one sheep from his fold for hereby the soul of a converted sinner is inseparably united unto him By this Gospel grace the taste and discerning of divine and spiritual things is made truly cordial and comfortable unto believing souls Hereby God is set up in the highest place in the soul in all he reveals himselfe to be Hereby he is sought unto for all acknowledged in all what ever means or instruments he useth believed in all he saith honoured in all he doth in prosperitie or adversitie in particular or in general to themselves or others praise returned unto him for all mercies how or what way so ever conferred feared above all rejoyced in and delighted in above all that can be conceived of creatures incomparably This makes them measure all Glory by Gods Standard and weigh all comfort in Gods Ballance and try all treasure by Gods Touchstone and none of these will be approved by them but what hath his allowance Hereby God overcomes darknesse with light corruption with sanctification trouble with comfort disquiet with peace sorrow with joy opposition with support weaknesse with strength assaults with victory danger with securitie sufferings with rescue death with life and this not only once but often not sometime only but at all times not in some respects only but in all not against some evills only but against all not for some continuance only but unto the end for though every way many be the troubles of the righteous yet the Lord delivereth them out of them all Psal 34. 19. And all this grace in all the varietie of the glorious manifestations thereof is in the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ Chap 4. ver 4. And in the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ v 6. And now in the third place for the further illustration of this greatest glory of the Lord manifest to his Church in this world let us come to those respective considerations wherein it will be yet more evident that this Gospel glory is the greatest glory of all that in the world God hath or doth or will manifest yea or any living in it can behold Now for manifestation of the many more glorious excellencies of Gospel grace above all the other glorious works of the most blessed God wherein he hath discovered his wonderfull excellencies in and for his true Church upon earth as revealed carried on to be accomplished here and fully perfected in heaven We shall further endeavour by his most gracious assistance to display the transcendent glory of this work above all the other in these ensuing particulars First In respect of the more glorious nature of the work Secondly In respect of the more glorious matter of the work Thirdly In respect of the many wayes considerably more excellent foundation of the work Fourthly In respect of the most glorious structure forme and frame of the work Fifthly In regard of the long continued time for the raising of the work Sixthly In regard of the way of the raising of this work by the constant shining out of the wonderfull glory of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost all the time it is in raising Seventhly In respect of the subordinate means of raising up this work Eighthly In respect of the object for which and in reference to whom it is immediately contrived and raised Ninthly In regard of the ends wherefore it is contrived carried on raised and to be perfected in reference both to God and Man Tenthly In respect of the many excellent uses to be made by all men here of the contriving carrying on and raising of this work and what will be made of it by glorified Saints and Angells hereafter in heaven Eleventhly In respect of the effect of all that concerns the manifestation of all the gloriousnesse of this work to good and bad men and Angells here and hereafter And if the Lord the Spirit shall be graciously pleased to carry us along in any competent manner but to hint or point out unto any Arts of men the manifold transcendent glory of this Gospel glory of the Lord I hope some men by his blessing may have the transforming glory thereof if not altogether wrought yet in some measure increased in them by the same Spirit by whose guidance as we endeavour to doe it so we shall endeavour to pray unto him for it First therefore of the first viz. the respective consideration of the more glorious nature of the work above the nature of the works of Creation Sustentation and Gubernation or Providence which though they be the Works of the All-glorious God in their kinde and degree suitable to the Author yet is this more excellent worke of his in its own nature eminently many wayes much more glorious and particularly in these Considerations following First In that the Creation Sustentation Gubernation of the world are of corruptible principles and materialls in continuall transmutations and changes generations and irruptions increases and decreases all in successions nothing in continuance or stability excepting Angells and the souls of men which though they be in the world yet they are not of the world as Christ said his Kingdome was not of which in great part they are but the great work of Gospel grace is of a spiritual and incorruptible nature suitable to the Author of it and as the nature of a thing is neerer to him the more perfect it is Secondly All the former great works of God respect inferiour creatures and the outward beeing and well-fare of man and directly reach no further but this respects the inward and spiritual well-fare of man and tends directly to the advancing of that now as the use and improvement of a thing is more excellent and glorious much more is that which is the cause of it Thirdly As the first works consisted of corruptible principles so their continuance and use will be but for a time and shall have their periods and cessations but this divine Gospel grace is of an eternall being and will remaine in its use and excellency to all eternitie Secondly And as in respect of the nature of the work so this Gospel grace is more glorious than all the other in respect of the matter of the work Base and mean materialls doe obscure and not illustrate the glory of a work Who can bring a
Christ which they by a gracious inward operation upon their souls are not only inabled to think well of and to observe favourable aspects of Divine grace in such seeming dark times but much to rejoyce many times and triumph in assurance of victory afore-hand yea to esteeme it their great honour that they are counted by him worthy so to doe him service and suffer for his name yea to esteeme it a peculiar favour and sometime to finde such strange support and sometime to have such inlargement of comfort to the stupifying as it were the sence of paine as some of the Martyrs in their sufferings acknowledged and sometime by the strong piercing sight of the eye of faith through the greatest and heaviest Crosse of Christ to discover the Crowne and strangely to beholders to seeme to neglect their contempt and with their Saviour Heb. 12. 2. to despise their shame and even to forget their sorrows yea and sometime with Stephen Acts 7. to behold high and heavenly visions of glory in the lowest ebbe of their temporal sufferings and all this many times not only to the astonishment but even to the confusion of the face of persecuting enemies according to that promise of our Saviour Luk. 21. 15. I will give you a mouth and wisdome which all our adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist which is many times fulfilled by mean and contemptible instruments which being the foolish of the world God chuseth to confound the wise and the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty and base things of the world and things that are not to bring to nought things that are 1 Cor. 1. 27 28. And thus in the manifold varieties of the dispensations of God towards his people as they receive both good and evill at his hand here which they willingly with holy Job alwayes acknowledge to be from him who or whatsoever be the instruments there are continual springs and fountains flowing forth with new matter of prayse and glory from the poor despised flock of Christ in this their uncertain pilgrimage from the manifold strong discoveries of the Gospel glory of God in and towards them in all his wayes and from some comfortable apprehensions from what a foundation of Free grace all such dispensations toward them are derived and unto what ends they tend with frequent observations of Gods glorious appearances therein so that they are sometime at a stand whether they should more wonder at such Gods appearances and glorious operations or praise him for his grace therein Oh who is able to set forth the fathomless depth of Gods misterious mercy in such sort to his faithful servants in all ages that men are ordinarily capable of knowing in this kind in regard of the innumerable varieties of godly mens experiences in all times which have been matter of such glory to God in their own persons or before others through all generations in all places of all conditions upon all occasions is but the least part as we say of all knowledge of that which in this kind might be known but as the Evangelist John chap. the last v. the last speaks in those high expressions of Christs works upon earth so may we say of these the weake understandings and memories of all men upon earth are not able to reach or remember them but when those manifold foldings of Divine wisdome held out in so many great Folioes of undecyphered Characters in such his dispensations of his grace and goodness shall be and before the glorified Saints and Angels fully explained and opened and the injoyments of everlasting fulness of glory in clear vision shall not only reveale the originall spring of all such currents of flowing mercy to all sorts of men but shall hold out in clear manifestations how in all these or what ever the like or other or greater actings which have been towards themselves in the wonder of the mistery of that glorious grace revealed and exhibited in their temporal and spiritual being in the world and afterward in their eternal happiness in the Kingdome of heaven was from God the Father through God the Son and by God the holy Spirit according to the eternal Gospel given to the Saints throughout all Ages the wonderfull goodness whereof and the glorious excellencies of God therein and thereby shining out unto them in their full glory in that most blessed vision and fruition of him which all glorified creatures then shall obtain will make them break forth with continual and unexpressible praises and glory to the great God and to the lambe and to the Lord the Spirit to all eternity And herein according as they have been appointed and exercised by those soveraign dispensations in the work in the greater service they shall be glorified accordingly with the greater measure of happiness in the world to come and so much the more largely shall they discern the excellency of the glorious and gracious workings of the Father Son and Holy Ghost for the true Church through all generations and accordingly be inlarged with rejoycing therein to the everlasting praise of his incomprehensibly glorious grace displayed thereby So that Gods ends in respect of man is to have his part in this great service and to have his portion in the other great happiness and both according to the measure and proportion dispensed and conveyed in the way of Gospel glory and both and all to the eternal glory of the author thereof we will not attempt to trace out here any of the more remarkable pathes of such mercy of God least even in them we loose our selves so far as to forget that we have here much other work to do and eternal vision will better yea perfectly discover it and is allotted for it but no such excellent end of any other works saving in reference unto this and so the drift of Gods bounty is advanced higher to man hereby then otherwise it could have been for in stead of an earthly Paradise he shall now be brought to the possession of an heavenly instead of knowing God as a Creator only he shall now both know and injoy him as his Creator and Redeemer instead of an uncertain and temporal happiness he shall have a most certain and eternal happiness instead of lower matter of praise he shal have unspeakeably higher matter of praise and consequently through this free Gospel grace the more inlargement of glory therewith And hence let us pass to the 〈◊〉 Tenth Respective consideration that is in respect of the many excellent uses to be made here of by all men here but especially by Gods servants here and hereafter above all the consideration of any other of Gods glorious works in the world First For all men that heare of such a glorious Gospel discovery in the world above the rest First to admonish them to learn in the method of young Children directed by their experienced Teachers First to know the letters and sillables
the Gentiles Petro commissa anthoritas ut predicaret Judaeis tantum c. Aquin Ibid. in Gal. Theophilact Ibid. Yea further In age gifts zeal order being as Chrys saith Os reliquorum Paul in this place sheweth himself to be equall with Peter Chrysost Vbi supra Now Paul sheweth himself to be equal in honour unto the rest not only unto others but also unto Peter the chief of all the short Schoba in Jeroms name in Gal. 2. I am in nothing inferiour to Peter Hierom Ibid Occulta hic oritur Quaestio Here ariseth a secret Question If Peter found any of the Gentiles did he not train him to the faith Or if St. Paul had happened upon any of the Jewes did he not exhort him to be baptised we must say Idem in Ps 44. Titul Apost ● Aequales principio Ecelesia that either of them had a speciall commission the one over the Jewes the other over the Gentiles that the Jewes who defended the Law might have one to follow and the Gentiles who chose rather the free gift of God and left the Law might likewise have a Teacher to go before them but generally this purpose was common to them both that out of all Nations as well Jews as Gentiles they might gather a Church unto Christ Petrus quia prevaluit in operatione miraculorum ad predicandum Judae is missus est Paulus verò ad predicandum Gentilibus quia prevaluit in profunditate ingenii et Torrente eloquii ● Hugo Card in Luc. 11. Synod Ephes Peter John was Survivour and belike subject to Linus Cletus Clemens c. or else personall succession is fallen to the dust and John were mutually of equall dignity for which cause they are manifested Apostles and holy Disciples Cyprian de simplic Plat. doubtlesse the same were the rest of the Apostles that Peter was endued with equall fellowship both of honour and power but a beginning is made of unity that the Church may appear to be one Ambrose in Ps 38. What is said to Peter is said to the other Apostle Chnysost in Acts 15. Now consider this also how that Peter doth all things by the common consent of the Disciples nothing by his own Authority nothing by Command Idem in Gal. 22. Paul had no need of Peters voyce neither of any helps from him but in honour was equall to him I will say no more Theophil in Matth. 16. Although it was said to Peter alone I will give it thee yet the Keyes were granted to all the Apostles Ambrose de incarnati●ue Dom c. 4. Peter had the primacy of confession not of honour Idem 2. Cor. 12. Paulus tempore non dignitate minor Hillary lib. 6. de Trin. All the Apostles for the worthinesse of their Faith acknowledging his Divinity received the Keyes of Heaven and authority of binding and loosing in Heaven and in Earth Aug de Pasto c. 13. The Apostles were many and it was said to one Feed my Lambs and Peter himself commended unity Idem de Agone Christi c 30. When it was said to one it was said to all Lovest thou me Feed my Sheep Origen in Matth Tract 1. These things as it were spoken to Peter are common to all Hierome in Gal Paul reproved Peter which he durst not have done unlesse he had known himself not unequall Cyrill in Esay lib. 4. c. 44. But why do we call them the Foundation of the Earth for Christ is the Foundation of all and stay of all keepeth and holdeth all things to be sure and stedfast in him are all built a spiritual house compacted by his Spirit into an holy Temple and Habitation of himself for he dwelleth in our hearts by Faith The next and nearer Foundation unto it may be understood the Apostles and Evangelists being eye witnesses and made Ministers of the Word for confirmation of Faith for when we know that their Traditions are to be followed we shall keep a right faith or not strange or erring from Christ for by him it was said to Peter because he had confessed the Faith in him right soundly and had said Thou art Christ the Son of the Living God Thou art Peter and upon this Rock will I build my Church Calling a Rock as I think the immoveable Faith of the Disciple it is also said by the Psalmist Her foundations are upon the Holy Hills The Holy Apostles are rightly to be compared to Holy Hills the knowledge of whom is established as a foundation to posterity to the same effect Lib. 5. cap. 54. Greg. Lib 4. Epist 32. Peter is not called universal Apostle Hugo de Sancto Victore lib. 1. de sac c. 26. Greg. in Rus lib. 4. c. 4. Paul obtained the principality of the whole Church and was made the Head of Nations Primasus produceth Paul speaking in his own name I am not inferiour to him meaning Peter because we both are of one ordained to one Ministry Beda Hom in Evang Quem me dicunt c. Power of binding and loosing though it may seem given of the Lord only to Peter yet without any doubt it is to be advertised that it was granted also to the other Apostles Viz Aug. Tract 14. in Jo Ideo unus per omnibus quia unit as in omnibus Idem Tract 124. Glossa in Gal. 2. I learned not of others as of my betters but I conferred with them as with friends and equals Item Lyranus in Math. 16. Lastly To shut up all the testimony of Jerome adversus Jovin Lib 1. is irrefragable The firm ground and establishment of the Church is laid equally upon all the Apostles all of them received the Keyes These ancient worthy Fathers and the rest as a cloud of witnesses do verifie the parity or equality of Peter to all other the Apostles which I have in this place purposely recited for that they give strength and light unto some of mine assertions formerly set down against Dr. Kellison a mercenary Proctor for the Pope-dome Let the conclusion be in the words of that eminent Preacher and Opposer of Popery Dr. Still in his usuall prayer frequently mentioned by that Reverend Mr. Nelson God confound all hurtfull errours or heresies give victory to his Truth and Glory to his holy Name whereunto I cordially with all Gods faithfull people say AMEN FINIS Books lately Printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the Sign of the three Crowns over against the great Conduit at the lower end of Cheapside A Commentary upon the three first Chapters of Genesis by Mr. John White in fol. The humbled sinner resolved what he should do to be saved or faith in the Lord Jesus Christ the only way of salvation by Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick in 4. The riches of grace displayed in the offer and tender of salvation to poor sinners by the same Author in 12. The Fountain opened and the water of life flowing forth for the refreshing of thirsty sinners by the same Author in 4. Anatomy of secret sins presumptuous sins sins in dominion and uprightnesse on Psal 19. 12 13. together with a Treatise of the sin against the Holy Ghost by Obadiah Sedgewick Hidden Manna by Mr. Fenner in 12. The hypocritical Nation described with an Epistle prefixed by Mr. Samnel Jacomb in 4. The singular Actions of sanctified Christians in several Sermons on the 5. of Matth. An Exposition on the whole book of the Canticles by R. R. An Exhortation of the Churches of Bohemiah to the Churches of England wherein is set forth the good of unity order discipline and obedience in Churches rightly constituted With an Exhortation premised of the order and discipline used in the Churches of the Brethren of Bohemiah Dedicated to His Most Excellent Majesty Charls the IId. in Holland at His departure for England if possibly it may be for an accommodation among the Church of Christ by J. Amos Comenius the only surviving Bishop of the remains of those Churches