our onely Rule of obedience in the Church with the nature of that Spirit which leads to the one and to the other p. 15. at M 43 How those manifold gifts and operations of the Spirit are rightly to be considered in the distribution and exercise of them in and among the Saints of God p. 19. at N 44 What it is for the seed of the woman to bruise the head of tho Serpent as also what it is for the Serpent to bruise his Heele p. 23. at O 45 What wee are to thinke of those that seem to acknowledge things to bee true and that they see them to bee excellent in Christ but want the peace glory and comfort of them in themselves p. 25 at P 46 What it is for God to repent or not to repent p. 30. at Q 47 What is the peculiarity and universality of the Priesthood of Christ in the Church p. 34. at R. 48 How Christ our High Priest as also his Office are truly sayd to be without Father and without Mother and discent without beginning of dayes or end of life p. 37. at S 49 Who those Kings are that are wounded in the day of Gods wrath and the way and manner how it is to be accomplished p. 45. at T 50 What the crosse of Chist is further explicated opened and made manifest p. 52. at V. 51 How the word LORD is to be understood as it is used and brought in in the the fift vers of this Psalm p. 55. at W 52 What it is to be at the rigâ—t hand opened and explained p. 57 at X 53 What it is to wound or strike through Kings at the right hand opened and explained p. 58. at Y 54 What is meant by blaspheming the Sonne of Man as also what it is to blaspheme the Holy Ghost and how the one is forgiven and the other can never be forgiven p. 63. at Z 55 When the day of the Manifestation of Gods wrath is and how it comes to be exercised in the sonnes of men seeing that Gâ—â— is love even in the abstract p. 66. â—t A 56 How we are mystically to undeâ—stand the two great 〈…〉 Parents of all the world taught and set out unto us 〈…〉 story of the Creation of the fiâ—st man and woman 〈…〉 the birth and bringing forth of Cain and Abel p. 70 at â— 57 The cause and ground of mans Alienation and Estrangement from God and how it is extended and continued still in the wicked p. 72. at C 58 How men are mistaken in the fall of Angels yea such as hold themselves Doctors of the Law and Teachers of others what it is made manifest and how we are to come to the knowledge of them as also what necessity use the knowledge thereof is unto us p. 74. at D 59 How the Lord is truly sayd to rule among the Heathen or such as are alienated yea even in his Saints p. 76. 60 What the calling of the Jewes is and the bringing in of the fulnesse of the Gentiles when and in what mnaner it shall be pag. 78. at F 60 How the fall of man which is the very woe and destruction of the wicked comes to be the very in-let of the grace of God unto salvation in the Saints by Jesus Christ p. 84. at G 62 What is the proper ground of mans breach of covenant with God and of all those disasters and breaches that are betwixt man and man in the world as also what is the onely proper and direct way of healing of them p. 87. at H 63 How the man and the woman are sayd to be naked in the beginning are not ashamed as also how it comes to passe that they afterwards are sayd to see themsedves naked are ashamed according to the true mystery and intent both of the one and the other p. 89 at I 64 The sinne and fall of man cannot be seen and looked upon with an eye of faith but salvation must appeare in it as also that the righteousnesse and resurrection of Jesus Christ cannot be seen and looked upon with a carnall and unbeleeving eye but death and destruction appeares in it p 91. at K 65 How sin and the righteousnesse of faith are neither of them hoth any created thing and how each of them comes properly to be by generation and not else to bee heard of found or felt by the creature p. 93 at L 66 What that root is of which the soune of perdition springeth and groweth up as also how it is caused to rot and wither when Christ is made manifest in the Gospel p. 97. at M 67 What is the branch or top of that man of sin and how Christ causeth that to decay and wither also as well as the root p. 98 at N 68 The the triall of Gideons soldiers by drinking of water out of the river opened and interpreted and how it agrees with and teacheth how the Sonne of God drinkes of the Brook in the way in those onely approved by him that lap up the water out of their hand as a Dogge laps it up with his tongue p. 106. at O 69 That in the very act of the humiliation of Jesus Christ is his exaltation also in the true Mystery of his incarnation and how it comes to passe that of necessity so it must be and cannot possibly be otherwise p. 109. at P. 70 That as the Gospel is divulged and commeth from one that is not simply and onely a creature so ought it not to bee preached unto any as beeing simply and meerly in the state and condition of a creature p. 111. at Q 71 In what the humiliation and exaltation of Iesus Christ doe properly consist and that it must bee so and cannot bee otherwise p. 11 3. 72 How Death is truly sayd to bee the last enemy that is destroyed p. 115. 73 Of what use the death and resurrection of Iesus Christ are pag. 116. at T 74 How the Sonne of God is subiect unto and delivers up the Kingdome to the Father and yet rules and governes himselfe also eternally for of his Kingdome and Dominion there is no end for hee shall reigne for evermore Amen p. 118 Errours escaped in Printing in the first part of this Treatise PAg. 6. line 14. for beynod read beyond p. 9. l. 36. for hoest read holiest p. 14. l. 18. for all alike read we are all alike p. 15. l. 25 for ny read any p. 19. l. 24. for emencities read immensitie l. 25. for seemes read gives l. 30. for righteous read righteousnesse p. 21. l. 7. for no read not p. 22. l. 7. for shuttings read shutting l. 22. for diving read divining p. 23. l. 26. for head read heart p. 25. l. 36. for crufied read crucified p. 29. l. 12. for tion read nation the first syllable being misplaced in the former line p. 33. l. 9. for fo read for p. 39. l. 10. for ever read over p. 49. l. 34 for Serpen read
C 4. How this Psalm manifests it selfe to be indeed the Oracle of God and cannot be the word of a meere man nor appliable to any earthly state and condition whatsoever p. 5. at D. 5. The manner how the word of God takes our nature into unity with it selfe p. 6. at E 6 Of what continuation and duration the death and humiliation of Iesus Christ is according to the true life spirit vertue intent and meaning of it p. 7. 7. What operation the death and humiliation of Christ hath upon the men of the world p. 9. 8 What the proper enemies of the Priesthood of the Sonne of God are p. 9 9 What the two Cherubims are that cover the Mercy-seat in the true signification of them p. 16. at E 10 What is the onely root and rise of the manifestation and exercise of Gods power in the Church p. 17. F. 11 What are the onely enemies of Christs Kingly Office in the Church and how overcome p. 18. G 12 How men may be said to deny the resurrection authority or Kingly power of Iesus Christ p. 20. at H 13 What those Cherubims placed at the East of Eden in their true intent and meaning are and what their Office is to such as are in the way of sin and of the fall p. 21. at I 14 The time and manner of the Saints assembling together when and what it is according to the authority and operation of Gods call in the Assembly p. 28. at K 15 What the proper Ornaments of the Saints are in the time of their holy assemblies p. 30. at K 16 How John and Jesus are both truly sayd to be fore-runners being so far different in office and quality p. 30. at L 17 The proper Rise Nature and Number of the Oblations and Offerings of the Saints according to the plenteous grace of the Gospel p. 31. at M 18 What the Oath of God is by which our high Priest Iesus Christ was consecrated and installed into his office p. 38. at N 19 How the work of God though in it selfe a creature compirsed in time and place may truly be said to be insinit as God himselfe is infinite and yet there is but one infinite See p. 48. above the letter O. 20 What that Plurality properly is which is comprehended in these words Let us make man in our own Image p. 49. at O 21 What is meant by the Angels not keeping their first estate opened and discovered p. 52. at P. 22 What the Keyes of the Kingdome of heaven are or that Key of David that openeth and no man shutteth and shutteth and no man openeth explained and discovered p. 56. at Q 23. What the life of man as he excells all other creatures properly is and of what correspondency the life of Christ springing out of death and the death of Antichrist fading or consuming out of life are in way of Antithesis or opposition p. 60. at R 24 What the sound of the last Trumpet is and how the change is made in the twinkling of an eye p. 60. at S 25 Severall verses opened and interpreted out of that first Epistle to the Corinthians the 15. Chapter to declare the nature and certainty of that oath of God whereby our high Priest is installed into his office p. 62. at T 26 What the difference is between the Spirit of God in its interpretation of the Scriptures and that which is truly called a private interpretation p. 70. at V 27 The nature of the fall of Man what it is in eating of the forbidden tree and how both the Tree of life and the Tree of the knowledge both of Good and Evill are sayd to bee in the midst of the Garden and what it is to eate of the one and of the other p. 71. at W 29 What it is to bee under the oath of the Curse and how it is brought to passe to be in force and exercised in man who was made blessed p. 75. at X 29 What is the ground of the translation imputation or reckoning of the sinne of man upon that holy and innocent Sonne of God p. 79. at Y 30 The time of the womans being in the Wildernesse what it is Rev. 12. and how a true forme cannot be given unto the Church of Christ without the knowledge of it p. 80. at Z 31 What it is to fight with Beasts at Ephesus after the manner of Men expounded and opened p. 88 32 How we are to understand that body celestiall and that body terrestriall which the Apostle speakes of and what is the true glory of the one and of the other p. 95. at B 33 What that patern is which Moses saw in the Mount according to the mystery truth and substance of it and of what use and necessity the knowledge of it is unto us in case wee ever intend to goe up to re-edifie the house of God p. 96. at C 34 How wee are to judge of the mortality and immortality of the soule of man and of the truth and verity both of the one and of the other p. 98. 35 That the resurrection spoken of and principallly intended in the Scriptures is spirituall perfected at once in one act through Jesus Christ and yet denies not but confirmes the resurrection of the body out of the grave in due time p. 102. at E 36 That the word of God is to be held and maintained as absolute and glorious in the unity of it as it is in its multiplication as in the whole circumference so also in the center of it p. 108. at F. 37 What the Crosse of Christ is and how men dishonour the Gospel by teaching it to be that which it is not in giving that to be the share and portion of the sonnes of Adam which the Sonne of GOD hath taken as his owne proper share and portion p. 110. 38 How we are to conceive and judge of an Eldership in the Church and House of God in case it bee according to the order of that Pristhood of our Melchisedec p. 113. 39 How we are to understand the Sacrifices or that one Sacrifice or Lamb offered for and in the Church of Christ p. 119. at I Here followeth a Table containing the heads of such poynts as are handled in the second part of this Treatise according to the order of the English Alphabet 40. WHAT the Baptisme or washing of the Church is as it is the Laver of Regeneration and washing away of sinne without which a vanity in all Baptismes p. 10. at K 41 A difference most needfull to bee observed between that which is properly the Crosse of Christ and that which Doctrinally teacheth what it is without the knowledge where of true Baptisme cannot be understood p. 15. at L 42 What agreement there is between the taking up of any one act of Baptisme and making it the ordinance of washing in the Church and to tak up one of the ten words or Commandements and making it to be
or below him for it being the humiliation of the Son of God it was to the greatest and utmost degree of debasement so that nothing was or could be lower then that condition was which he tooke upon him for if there had then had he fallen short of a perfect and absolute overcoming and vanquishing of sin and death and then had our salvation failed therefore saith our Apostle Christ was made a little lower then the Angells and in suffering of death crowned with glory and honour i Heb. 2. 9. that he by the grace favour or mutuall imbracings of God as the word signifies might in man that is in our nature taste and feel death in all or in every particular part way or kinde of it k Heb. 2. 9. being made so low as nothing can be lower therefore he adds that the Captaine of our salvation is made perfect through sufferings l Heb. 2. 10. Such and so many and great as the glory of his exaltation is in bringing sons to glory answerable to that is his debasement in that condition out of which he fetcheth and taketh them therefore in the way of his humiliation doth he lift up his head and is exalted for ever To this comes that of the Apostle when hee saith then or henceforth the end finishing accomplishment or perfection as the word translated end signifies and denotes unto us when he shall deliver up the Kingdome to God even the father m 1 Cor. 15. 24. or when he hath given up or put into the hands put into trust or yeelded all regallity and Soveraignty to be in and onely belong unto him who is the father of all dignity excellencie and power at which time or in that very act of yeelding or giving all unto God he doth evacuate empty or make void the creature of all rule authority and power in all things whatsoever that concernes the glory and dignity of the Kingdom of God for he must or it is expedient and needfull yea he doth raigne still or n 1 Cor. 15. 25. to the end to put downe all his enemies under his feet this is the very end of his raigne to put all Gods enemies under foot now whatsoever is in man by nature is an adversary yea is in hostility as the word signifies against God therefore the reign of Christ must of necessity bring under or else he were not a perfect victor overcomer and conquerour over all and then could not he obtaine the glory of the Son of God therefore he adds that the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death o 1 Cor. 15. 26. by this word last is meant the basest or the lowest of enemies and it is the lowest and basest in that it destroyes ruinates and utterly spoiles it selfe therefore the word translated destroy signifies unthriftinesse to the undoing and losse of it selfe for the Son of God is made so low by the suffering of death as that the death comes into competition and ingagement with the life of the Son of God and so must of necessity consume waste ruinate and loose it selfe being that the Son of God must live eternally else he were not God and so death is swallowed up in victory p 1 Cor. 15. 54. hence it is that the Psalmist speakes so elegantly thou hast put all things under his feet all sheep and oxen yea and the beast of the field foules of the ayre and fish in the sea that passe through the paths of it q Psal 8. 6 7 8. this is mans Lordship and according to the naturall workings of his mind and understanding hee perceives his dominion as he is a man when hee comes into competiton with the inferiour sensuall and terrene creatures they serving to this end namely to give dimention and to manifest the nobility and excellency of that spirit which the Creator had indued him withall by which he saw that Lordship and dominion which he had over them all being they were all made in subjection unto him and farre under and beneath him therefore could he not finde a fit companion or consociate for himselfe amongst them all r Gen. 2. 20. this man can doe by that naturall and common understanding which he hath implanted in him even as he is a creature and in this death doth not properly consist therefore no speech of death whilst he is said to be conversant in and about these things that is simply to respect the creature in his thoughts words or actions but when this naturall understanding proper unto man simply as he is a creature workes upon and is conversant in and about the things of the Creator then by how much the more hee would be like his Creator which so farre transcends and is above all the creatures in the world by so much is he debased and made under and below all creatures in the world and this is that death which is destroyed s Hos 13. 14 1 Cor. 15. 54 55 56 57. for being a death of that nature when ever wee looke upon it by that light and revelation of the Spirit that comes onely from that Father of lights then is it in this as in that former way of nature so now in this way of grace for this death serves to no other end but to mete out as with a metwand or measuring line t Rev. 11. 1. to give dimension unto that life that is in the Son of God whereby by he sees the height of his Soveraignty dominion and Lordship for ever which without it could never appeare nor bee made manifest in a creature but must of necessity have been hid and lodged in himselfe for ever and then had not his goodnesse appeared u Tit. 2. 11. Psal 39. 19. 19. and if not his goodnesse then not his light x 1 Ioh. 1. 5. and that light which appeares not is darknesse y Mat. 6. 23. and if God should not be light he were no God at all z 1 Ioh. 2. 9 10 11. and thus uncontrouleable and without all controversie doubt or scruple doth God convince our hearts of that breaking forth and revelation of himselfe unto us in the face of Jesus Christ a 2 Cor. 4. 6 and hereby doth death being made so low extinguish put out vanquish and destroy it selfe for ever in that it sets out that life and light which is in that faith of the Sonne of God which otherwise could not appeare to or in the Saints and of such use is that unto the Saints and chosen of God as to lift them up unto life and light of comfort for ever through that wisdome which is in God which is nothing els but the King of terrour to all the men of the world who look upon the things of God with a naturall and carnall eye b Iob. 18. 5. to 21. for Christ by drinking of the brooke in the way is exalted as head governour and ruler over all
communicate in any grace of God p Matth. 6. 24. James 4. 4. then is their heaven gone their God is taken away from them q Judg. 17. 5. so that they cannot but cry out against such doctrine r Heb. 12. 24 and are necessitated either to hold the death of Christ to be momentany and so past as that for the present it is not and so the blood of sprinkling speakes not at all s Luke 17. 21. 2 Cor. 1. 5. but onely a-farre off as they phantastically and vainly imagine through their traditions for the Kingdome of God and the sufferings of Christ are ever at a like distance to us t 1 Pet. 1. 24 or else all their glory and power exercised in religion must prove Antichristian being they consist of such things which as the grasse shall fade wither and come to nought u Luke 16. 15. For the death of Christ as it concernes the elect of God and the livelihood operations and exaltations of men in the things of God cannot possibly stand together being in direct opposition the one to the other And hence it is that our Prophet addeth these words Vntill I have made thine enemies the foot stoole of thy feet Who then are the onely enemies of that Princely dignity that is in the Priesthood of Jesus Christ by vertue of which Priesthood he entreth within the veile into the Holy of Hoest or into the Holinesse of Holinesses as the word is x Exod. 26. 33. yea into heaven it self z Heb. 1. 3. 6. 19. 20. And sits down on the right hand of the Majesty on high So that none can take place of him a Heb. 8. 1. Now the utter and sole enemies of the dignity of this Royall Priesthood of the Son of God are all manner of vertues and excellencies whatsoever attainable by man b Gal. 1. 11. 12. that have not in them the rise and continuance of Melchisedec c Heb. 1. 7. 15 16 17. For such things beseem not the Royalty of this Priesthood d 1 Pet. 2. 9. that bringeth nothing unto God for acceptation but what holdeth correspondencie with him in all points e Heb. 1. 3. The adversaries therefore of this grace are all things brought into the worship of God as things acceptable to God that are temporary momentany and of a fading condition f Col. 2. 21 22 23. In a a word what ever had beginning or shall come to an end is an enemy to this Priesthood g Heb. 7. 3. For it is not the humane Nature in Christ that is the acceptable thing or offering h Act. 20. 28. but it is the glorious state and condition of the unity of both Natures consisting in one eternall Being which no Man or Angell can ever find out a time of their conjunction and unity no more then a time of their dis-uniting and separation can be found i Mark 10. 6 7 8 9. For if a time of conjunction can be found without eternity which hath no beginning then may a time of their dis-junction be found without eternity that hath no end at all For Gods account and reckoning admits not so of time in the way of Christ as to permit a dis-junction in that one pure simple single and eternall act in that workmanship of Christ And therefore it is that when the mystery of God is finished or perfected that is when the perfection of it is revealed and made known unto us then is this given in upon oath by the Angel that Time shall be no more k Rev. 10. 6. 7. Then doe we reckon and account according to God with whom all times are present because he is the fulnesse thereof in us For if he be all in all then is he all in time as well as any other thing l Eph. 1. 23. 1 Cor. 15. 28. So that we must reckon and keep the Records of the House of God according to his account and not according to the shallow register of a creature m Isai 55. 8. 9. With whom things are past that shall not return again and also to come that never yet were But the account of God is Yesterday and to day and the same for ever n Heb. 13. 8. And one day with the Lord is as a thousand yeares and a thousand yeares as one day o 2 Pet. 3. 8. So are we to account if we keep Records according to his wisdome and not after the wisdome of vain man in any thing no more then we are to speak or preach in the enticing words of mans wisdome but according to the wisdome and power of God o 1. Cor. 1 17. 1 Cor. 2. 4 5 6 7. The enemies therefore of Christs Priesthood that keep without the veile and so from sitting down or abiding at the right hand of Majesty hindering our Ministery that it taketh not place of all and hath not effect in all either as a savour of life or as a savour of death p 2 Cor. 2. 15 16 17 18. are all temporary things brought into the House of God as things acceptable to God as places offices gifts of learning in Arts in Tongues yea the worlds created gifts of grace which it propoundeth to it selfe in point of salvation bearing it selfe in hand that there are created gifts of grace in a Christian which are neither humane nor yet divine so as to be properly the holy Spirit of God which indeed is to annihilate the Sonne of God by destroying and bringing to nought the grace of his Kingdome in setting another form upon it then ever the Father of Lights did q James 1. 17. That gives a true forme to every thing r Job 38. 22 13 14. For Christ is the onely paterne and platforme of all Christianity Å¿ Heb. 8. 5. And to hold and teach something to bee in Christ beyond or besides the reality of God and Man Humane nature and Divine in one individuall subsistance is no better then to Idolize the Son of God and to set him up as a vain and empty thing in the world and as our Apostle saith We know that an Idoll is nothing in the world t 1 Cor. 8. 4. or to make him to be Belial For there can be nothing but humane nature and divine in the way of Christ nor can there be any thing but humane nature and sin in the way of Antichrist So that to bring in a middle thing in the way of Christ is to bring in sinne into that holy One of God and to bring in a middle thing in that way of Antichrist is to make him to hold some correspondency with the Son of God whereas the Scripture concludes there is no agreement at all between Christ and Belial u 1 Cor. 6. 1â— But stand in direct termes of opposisition Antichrist being that wicked One x 1 John 7. 1 18. So that if we give