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A96143	The judgement set, and the bookes opened. Religion tried whether it be of God or of men. The Lord cometh to visit his own, for the time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God. To separate the sheep from the goats. and the precious from the vile. And to discover the blasphemy of those that say, they are apostles, teachers, alive, rich, Jewes, but are found lyars. Deceivers. Dead. Poore, blind, naked. The synagogue of Satan. In severall sermons at Alhallows Lumbard-street, by John Webster, a servant of Christ and his church.	Webster, John, 1610-1682.	1654 (1654)	Wing W1210; Thomason E805_13; ESTC R207390	257,953	337

doing this work we may see the manner of his working and proceeding with the sons of men in the following words I will cut off thy Horses out of the midst of thee and I will destroy thy Charets this is one part of his acting He will cut off his Horses and destroy his Charets that is whatever it be that man rides on or trusts in or thinks to be delivered by all his helps or refuges all his hopes or confidences that are below or less then Jesus Christ himself hee will cut off and destroy though his confidence be never so great and that wherein he trusts be never so strong and his Charets never so many In that day when the Lord wil arise they shall be all cut off all utterly overwhelmed like Pharaoh and his Charets in the Sea Let it be what it will wherein thou trustest Exod. 14. and thinkest to sit safely in the midst of all wrath and storms if thou puttest trust in riches honour power of men wisdom parts or any thing thou hast chosen and thinkest thy self ever the better or safer for them all these shall be cut off from thine hand Nay though thou art in the very Chariot of Religion Mich. 5.12 and highest profession of the truth and hast chosen to thy selfe the purest forms and Ordinances as thou callest them and Church-felloships washings breaking of bread or any thing else in thine hand which can be named except Jesus Christ himselfe whereby thou hast quieted thy spirit and hast thereby gotten to thy selfe a peace and a rest all is a delusion and an Idol It may be Thou when thy conscience began to accuse thee and wrath appeard to amaze and affright thee thou saidst within thy self I must now do something that I may deliver my soule from this guilt I must quench this flame for I am not able to bear it I will run to this duty and take up that form and observe such and such rules and then I shall do well and I shall secure my self from wrath and hell As the Pharisees what think you drove them to the Baptism of John certainly it was this fear and this guilt upon their spirits For saith he to them O Generation of Vipers Mat. 3.7 who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come bring forth fruits meet for repentance as if he should say when ye were affrighted and terrified you thought comming to my Baptisme would secure you but you are but Vipers for all this and this submitting to Baptisme doth not declare true repentance But know the Ax is now laid to the root of the Tree Vers 10. and every Tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire And further you boast of being the children of Abraham and the seed of the faithful and because ye are members of the true Church but all this is to little purpose for God is able of these stones to raise up Children unto Abraham So that you see for all your Forms and Fellowships wherein you trust you shall be in that day of the Lord stript naked of all your garments and of all your refuges all those Horses and Chariots which you thought should preserve you and carry you out of all danger they shall all be broken and cut off and thy soul plunged into the bottomlesse pit Psal 38.3 and thou shalt have no rest in thy bones because of thy sin and by reason of thy misery for thou shalt not know which way to turn thee for all thy Idols and all thy Images shall not in that day be able to help or deliver thee Jer. 4.4 for the wrath of the Lord shall burn as an Oven and then thou must stand naked before the presence of the Lord who is a consuming fire Heb. 12. c. to burn up and consume every thing but Himself And not onely so but as it follows in the next words I will cut off the Cities of thy Land and throw down all thy strong holds As when outward enemies came upon the people of Israel and invaded their Land and the Lord had said they should go into captivity then nothing should be a defence to them but the enemy should break into their strongest places and their Cities should not secure them nor any of their strong holds which they had made for their defence do them any good This now was true in the Letter but this is also as true in the Mystery in the living and spiritual sense When men have made themselves defences and think they are secured from wrath and hell and all storms and no evil shall touch them neither will they be carried captive by Satan nor by the Prince of Darknesse and although by their wisdom they contrived these forts and strong holds and thought themselvs never so secure therin yet all of them shall be vain hopeless and helpless and nothing within them nor without them shall help them and the wrath of the Lord shall make them vile odious and abominable which before they got coverings for now whether they will or no they shall see themselves as they are and they shall not be able to have one good thought of themselvs but the contrary for this light of the Lord discovers their blackness their deformity and that there is no power nor wisdom can help them but onely the good will and the good hand of the Lord nothing but his meer goodnesse and they shall see that there is no power no goodnesse no mercy anywhere but in the Lord alone and if he doe not pitty them there is no mercy at all for them And not only so That men have their horses to ride on to carry them swift away that no danger may overtake them and Chariots wherein they ride and put their trust so likewise that they have Cities and Strong-holds for their security so that all the wisdome and power of man cannot make them more strong and safe to beare off the wrath of God but also saith he in the next verse Vers 13 I will cut off witchcraft out of thine hand and thou shalt have no more Southsayers Men have their Juglers and Diviners their Southsayers and their Witches All that witchcraft whereby men have deluded and deceived their souls in that day shall be discovered those false SEERS who cryed peace peace when there was no peace All that Witchcraft which men used in the things of God in setting up Images and forms and shadows and herein deluded men making them believe they were the things themselves And though they have wrought them up never so curiously and made them as neere the life as might be yet in that day they shall come to see they were but Images and dead things which could not help at all And now they shall no more live upon them or hang depend or call upon them for help or reliefe though they were made after the best pattern and never

figure there is alwayes something resembled or shadowed out to us besides and beyond the Allegory or Metaphor Therefore by the Plant here mentioned is mean the New Creation or the New Man created in Jesus Christ Eph. 4 24. And there is nothing can thrive or flourish but onely this which is onely planted by God himself every other plant must be rooted up this new man is of God spiritualized like himself of his own nature and it knows and understands the things of God let there be a thousand Religions in the world yet onely that which the Father hath planted and is from Heaven that alone shall stand I would for testimony to this truth refer you to two or three places of Scripture to consider of I will not name nor multiply many for I will not weary you with tumbling over the Letter as the manner of some is neither is it of much use or of any proof or convincement to any but those who have the things themselves made good in them Take that in John 15.1 2. Joh. 15.1 2. There is the same similitude used as is here I am the true Vine and my Father is the Husbandman Every branch in me which beareth not fruit he taketh away and every branch which beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit So that this shews that Jesus Christ is the onely vine and his father onely minds and husbands this Vine and every branch in it for the root and branches are all but ONE Vine and the Father he alone hath planted it and he dresseth it and waters it and prunes it Jesus Christ in himselfe and members he is the true root of Jesse whom the Lord will establish upon the Throne for ever And t is onely the root of David that hath prevailed Rom. 15.12 Esa 11.10 and no other All other Vines are as a wilde Olive and bear no fruit in him and therefore must be taken away and cut off for except they abide in him they cannot bring forth fruit Without me you can do nothing Joh. 15.4 5. That which is a wild vine or a wild Olive it bears no good fruit therefore men reject it and root it up as good for nothing but to cast into the fire to burn and so doth the Heavenly Husband man reject whatever is wilde and not planted by himself Out of him all the fruit they bring withers and dyes nay they are fruitlesse without they be graffed into him and that they have his spirit and his divine nature that they are members of his body flesh of his flesh bone of his bone Eph. 5.30 So that by this place you may see that the Heavenly Father is the true Husbandman and the onely true plant is Jesus Christ and every one which beareth true fruit they are branches proceeding and growing in and from this root Again look on that place Rom. 6.5 Rom. 6.5 if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection So that still the Scripture carries it along in the person of Christ and not to own any thing or any fruit brought forth by any of the sons of men but as they are rooted and bring forth fruit in him He is the choise and tender VINE which brings forth fruit acceptable to the Heavenly Father He is the tree of life in the City of God spoken of in Revel 21.2 planted by the River bearing twelve manner of fruits Rev. 12.2 and yielding her fruit every moneth and the leaves of this tree are for the healing of the Nations And HEE is the tree spoken of Psal 1.3 He shall be planted by the Rivers of Waters that bringeth forth fruit in his due season whose leaf shall not wither Ps 1 3. and whatsoever he doth shall prosper Every beleever is a mameber of Jesus Christ A plant planted by the Lord in him and none can possibly cause any branch in him to wither all else out of him cannot but wither and dye Ps 92.13.14 So also take notice of that place Psal 92.13 14. The righteous shall flourish like the Palm Tree and shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the Courts of our God They shall bring forth fruit in their old age they shall be fat and flourishing Jesus Christ is also that spirituall house which the Heavenly Father hath builded not made with hands but eternal in the Heavens and every Saint is a Spiritual Stone in this spiritual house and these are all beautiful stones being placed in this house These are fruitful Trees being planted there and shall bring forth fruit and shall flourish when they are old and bring forth fruit to eternity One place more shall suffice that in Jer. 17.7 8. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord Jer. 17.7 8. and whose hope the Lord is For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters and that spreadeth out her roots by the River and shall not see when beat commeth but her leaf shall be green and shall not be careful in the year of drought neither shall cease from yeilding fruit These places are sufficient I need not farther enlarge for they give testimony and witness as far as the Letter can But what is the Letter to that man who hath no Testimony nor Witnesse of the truth thereof in his own heart he can never set his seal to the truth thereof and it can do him no good except it be a word of evidence and he hath a witnesse within it being true in his heart But the mon of the Letter if they hold forth any truth then they heap up Scriptures as they conceive to prove it and think they have done such an act when as if there be not a convincement and a witness thereof within the Letter will never convince men but when the same thing is written in the heart then man closes with it and answers to it and then the Word is as David saith sweeter then the Honey and the Honey-comb Ps 19.10 and more to hbe desired then Gold yea then much fine Gold else t is no other but a dead Letter and then is fulfilled that promise of the New Covenant Jer. 31.33 Heb. 8.10 Jer. 31.33 Not according to the Covenant I made with their Fathers which Covenant they brake But I will put my Law into their inward parts and write it in their hearts and they shall no more teach every one his neighbour and his brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest c. And thus I hope there are many here find this truth made good in themselves and will set to their seal that all other plants which the Father hath not planted must be rooted up And if this be so Vse 1 as most certainly it is then

but the Apostle tels us of another Ruler and Teacher As many as are Christs are led by the spirit of Christ Rom. 8.14 Acts 17.7 And in the Acts it is said the Apostles would have gone into Bithynia After they were come to Missia they assayed to goe into Bithynia but the spirit suffered them not for they found trouble and opposition there was the Lord leading of them and guiding of them otherwise they did not set a foot forward their eye was still upon the Lord so till the cloud be removed from over the Tabernacle the soule will finde nothing but trouble and destruction if it goe onward and the Lord hath not discovered the light of the Tabernacle and himselfe goe before it Then in the first place this discovers to us that there are usually two things in the way of Christ which oftentimes in the world are mistaken and taken one for another there are I say the heavenly things themselves and there are the Patterns of them now the Pattern is not set forth for it selfe but in reference and Relation unto the thing of which it is a pattern And a copy or exemplar it is not for it selfe but in relation to what we should act imitate or doe by it so there are the heavenly things themselves and the patterns or types or similitudes of them Take speciall notice of these two things Now we shall finde it apparent if we consider it that the world hath alwayes been quick-eyed to see the one but not at all to discern the other The world and especially the great professours of Religion have been quick-sighted to discern the form pattern and similitudes of Heavenly things and there they have been satisfied But I say to find feel and enjoy and to live in the Heavenly things themselves Heb. 9.23 Col. 1.26 1 Joh. 7.6 this is that Mystery that hath been hid from ages and Generations your time that is the time of the flesh is always But My time that is the time of Christ is not always as to man though always as to God I say the world in all Ages could never be found to be without living upon and in the patterns forms and shapes of Heavenly things according as they fancied but to find the sons of men living in under and by the power of Heavenly things themselves that is the Mystery that hath I say been hidden from ages and generations as Paul saith We all find the Jews in the time of Moses they all lived under the Law in that form they all saw the outward form of the Tabernacle had a reverent esteem of that and there rested And so how many are there now who rest on the outward forms of washing and dipping these I take to be the Familists the world so much hates and talks of for they are all of this Family and Society and herein lies so far as I can see their Church-membership which they so much Idolize And for all this how few are there of them that are of the inward assembly of the Saints that are come to the general assembly of the Church of the first born which are written in Heaven they are come and are brought but only to the mount that may not be touched and that burneth with fire Heb. 12.18 22. and unto blackness and darkness and tempest How many of them I say are these that are brought to Forms Fellowships and Washings which as they are used produce nothing but blackness and darkness and fire and Tempest not into the Unity of that one Spirit But Onely to be baptized with Moses in the Cloud and in the Sea 1 Cor. 10.1 c. Ps 95.11 Heb. 3 17.18.19 for with many of them saith the Apostle God was not well pleased whose Carkasses fell in the Wilderness And the Text saith they entred not into his Rest but were overthrown in the Wilderness because of unbelief Now we shall finde no age in the world where the people have wanted their forms of things in one kind or other but ye shall hardly find any age wherein people have lived under and upon the Heavenly things themselves How many patterns and similitudes have the Papists in their Church the Pope himself in imitation of Christ can wash the feet of twelve Pilgrims once in the year and fares it any better with those that call themselves members of other Churches to be only Apostles in imitation some have one pattern some another one thinks he hath the true Baptisme because he hath the similitude and pattern of spiritual Baptism which was then by some used by way of dipping in water Another hath the pattern and similitude of eating Christs Body and drinking his Blood in their breaking of Bread which was but the type of the Heavenly bread that was the Body of Christ But Christ saith Joh. 6.53 except a man eat his flesh and drink his blood he hath no life in him How many Churches partake of the patterns and shadows and whatever they say they conclude from thence they are the Church of God because say they we have the right use of the Sacraments which is a sign of a true Church because they have the patterns types and shadows observing onely outward rules forms and carnal ordinances which all perish with the using wherefore Col 2.20 if ye be dead with Christ from the Rudiments of the world why as though living in the world are ye subject to Ordinances yet impudently and blasphemously wil they dare to say they are not Church of Man but of God when they know not the mystery nor live according to the power of the Heavenly things themselves and therefore herein that Scripture comes to be fulfilled that men shall have a form of godliness 2 Tim. 3.5 but deny the power of it for the one may be where the other is not and the Apostle tells us That he is not a Jew that is one outwardly but he is a Jew that is one inwardly Rom. 2.28 29. whose circumcision is of the heart and spirit whose praise is not of men but of God So from hence it is clear many Churches and many hundred thousands of souls may have an exact pattern and yet want the Heavenly things themselves they may have the pattern as the Jews had that were sanctified and washed only with the Blood of Bulls and Goats but to have the Heavenly things themselves viz. that Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of life and to have the Purifications and Sanctifications that are onely by his blood this they are strangers to This is the spiritual and living fire and where ever it is in the soul of man it cannot but break forth to the destroying of all things of man and flesh and magnifying and exalting all things of the Spirit of God So that hence it is clear that it would be the wisdome of the sons of men to see whether they have the heavenly things themselves and