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A letter found in Utopia and from thence recommended by a very good hand to the perusal of the publisher wherein (among other things) a candid testimony to Mr. Sterryes learned and accurate Discourse of the freedom of the will lately printed : as also some reflections upon contending and disputing (as of late) about matters of religion : with a postscript to the reader, published to undeceive and quiet the minds of the people / by one that pities th'inscription upon th'Athenian altar.
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One that pities th'inscription upon th'Athenian altar.
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that is Isa 25. 6 7. â—en 22. 14. spread over all Nations and a covering cast over all people which is not to be destroyed or swallowed â—K 19. 8. â—a 63. 15. â—sal 26. 8. up but in the Mount of God the Mountain of his Holiness or place where his Honour dwells where he makes us a Feast of fat things of wines on the lees of fat things full of marrow of wines on the lees well refined c. And the truth is let men dream and divine or conjecture what they please to the contrary yet this is very certain That all manner of vails and coverings whatsoever can never be destroyed swallowed up or quite taken away till f the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing Mal. 4. 2. in his wings and freedom of good will upon us But dear loving Sir there is a passage in yours that I do not so well apprehend the meaning of and you will not I hope be offended at my paraphrasing upon it as briefly as I may in order to a right understanding Whereas you say in your Letter That the present time is very dark I suppose you meant it to be so only to those that are in the dark g 2 Cor. 4. 9. whose minds the god of this world hath blinded otherwise to those that h Eph. 5. 8. were sometimes darkness but are now made light in the Lord the present time is as lightsom to them as any that ever was or shall be for if we rightly profess and confess him i Revel 1. 4. that is and was is to come and yet k Heb. 13. 8. yesterday and to day and the same for evermore then we cannot but understand and see plainly that neither Ministrations past nor any that are to come can make any the least change or alteration upon that complete subsistence or being that we have in Him l Eph. 1. 22 23. who is Head over all things unto the Church which is his Body the fulness of him that filleth all in all if we can witness and bear forth this testimony to the world That m 2 Cor. 4. 6 the same God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness in that great early day or morning of the world hath shined into our hearts the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ and if by vertue of this Light we can clearly discern and do know that our GREAT n Job 19. 25. REDEEMER liveth who by o Heb. 10. 14. one Offering hath perfected for ever as many as come by faith unto him So that now we can sing triumphantly with p Exod. 15. 1 20. Job 38 7. Moses and Miriam and all those bright morning Stars and blessed ones of God unto the praise and glory of that one great and good work of his wherein we are q Eph. 2. 10. created in Christ Jesus as having neither superfluity nor defect in it and r Tim 3. 17. that the man of God is thus made perfect and so throughly furnished unto all good works in that one that he must needs stand Å¿ Col. 4. 12. complete for ever in all the whole mind and counsel and will of our Heavenly Father If these things be known to us and believed on by us how then comes it to pass that we are so mightily troubled molested or disquieted about all that darkness and weakness and want and imperfection that we find to be in our selves and that the thoughts hereof do frequently make us so exceeding wretched and miserable since all these things or Privations rather are familiarly known among Believers to be so disposed and ordered by the wisdom of the Almighty as to become the sole Inlets or Entrance into all that Light and Strength and Beauty and Glory and fulness of Sufficiencie that is only to be found in God alone in that way of t Col. 1. 19. Christ eternally and no where else besides And in that Day that great day of the Lord wherein these things are thus made manifest finished or done for us and in us u Zach. 12. 8. He that is feeblest in Jerusalem shall be as David w Psal 2. 6. a King x 78. 72. a Leader y 1 Sam. 18. 7. a valiant man z 2 Sam. 23. 1. a sweet singer in Israel and the house of David as God or as the Mighties for so the word is plural and as the Angel of the Lord before Them and since every one of these is now as the Angel or Messenger of the Lord before the rest of the Congregation or as the Angel of the Lord before Him so it may also be read that is a Messenger or Embassador like his Servant a Luke 3. 2 4 5. Mal. 3. 1. Mat. 11. 10. John to prepare or made ready his way before him it being the Angel or Messenger of the Lord and he only that rightly knows understands how to bring down every high Mountain and how to lift up every low valley and to make this an high-way for the Royalty of our King to pass upon in the wilderness And this is that real Glory now that the world can neither give receive or take away And yet b Psal 149. 9. this Honour have all his Saints Praise we the Lord. Having thus settled the main and that which in the love and distinct knowledge of it is of infinite consequence and concernment to the Souls of men In the next place Sir yours mentions the name of one that I have not heard of a long time before that is Mr. W. L. * Who congratulates you say my return from Diogenes his Tub c. There are so many years elapsed since I had any report either from or concerning him till now that I began to think and was ready to conclude that either some disease or some sad casualty or other incident to mankind might have carried him quite away from us and lodged him in the Grave but now I perceive by yours he is alive still and lately come forth upon me with A Tale of a Tub and because it seems he was not willing to give himself any more trouble he took I suppose what came next Diogenes his Tub rehearsed and transposed hand or what first fell upon his mind in order to the business and so puts me into Diogenes his Tub as the fittest Receptacle or hiding place for me in his own private judgment Now Sir as to this knowing him to be an c Levit. 19. 32. old man 1 Sam 2. 32 that I speak of and d Job 42. 17 full of days and that the infirmities of Age cannot chuse but be either more or less upon him possibly at some times or in some cases he may not have his e Heb. 5. 14. senses so well exercised as they should be however having been an intimate familiar friend and one
A LETTER FOUND IN UTOPIA And from thence recommended by a very good hand to the perusal of the Publisher Wherein among other things a candid Testimony to Mr. Sterryes learned and accurate Discourse of the Freedom of the Will lately Printed As also some reflections upon Contending or Disputing as of late about matters of RELIGION With a POSTSCRIPT to the READER Published to undeceive and quiet the minds of the People By one that pities th' Inscription upon th' Athenian Altar 1. Cor. 1. 20. Where is the Disputer of this World Job 15. 31. Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity for vanity shall be his recompence Isa 44 20. He feedeth on ashes A deceived heart hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his soul nor say Is there not a Lye in my right hand All things Superable below him that is Insuperable and All things Finite below him that is Infinite Bonitas invicti non vincitur infinita misericordia non finitur Fulgent ad Mon. Diffudisti per omnem mundum religiosi nominis membra religionis vim non habentia Salvian ad Eccles Cathol Ecchoing to 2 Tim. 3. 5. Qui Coelum dependenter habet in Revolutionibus suis vari â—â— sibi influentiâ—s impartialiteâ— exhibere tanquam Principi in terris aut Potentatui amplissimâ— Is Terram similiteâ— queat expectare in Laboribus suis fructum ipsius praematurum sibi producere idquâ— tempore tempestivo absque omni solicitudine vel timore sive Hominis aut Bestiaeâ— â— G. Americanus Protomartyr Printed in the Year 1675. The Publishers PREFACE OR APOLOGY THe following Letter might have waited sooner upon the World had the liveliness of the a Exod. 1. 19. Hebrew women been upon it and nothing to hinder the celerity of its Production but it frequently so falls out among men that useful things have but slow beginnings and a Progress proportionable in their going on to maturity Jonah's b Jon. 4. 6. gourd under which he was willing to shade himself as long as he could came up in a night and perished in a night and it may well serve as an Embleme for things of a lower value or such as the darkness of the night produces and that cannot endure the light of the day much Lucifugae might be said about matters of that nature that come forth suddenly and vanish accordingly the ordinary fate of such c Col. 2. 8 20 22. wordly Rudiments as perish in the using and that are seldom long lived But when the Prophet comes to speak of Sions peculiar and supernatural Birth-right he says d Isa 66. 7 8. That before she travailed she brought forth before her pain came she was delivered of a Man-child well may this be attended with the succeeding Queries Who hath heard such a thing Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day Shall a Nation be born at once Surely this can never or no where else be but where Time and Eternity are coupled together in marriage e Rev. 22. 13. the beginning and the end the first and the last the highest and the lowest the f Esa 46. 9 10. most antient and honourable with things not yet done or of g 1 Cor. 1. 28. no account in the worlds estimation when h Isa 60. 22. a little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong Nation and i Mic. 5. 7. comp with Job 38. 28. the remnant of Jacob in the midst of many people as a Dew from the Lord that waiteth not for man nor tarrieth for the sons of men and all this most amply aswel as most compendiously in Him who makes the Heavens and the Earth to be but one Globe or God and Man to be but one intire Being or most complete Subsistence in CHRIST OVR 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LORD for ever If such a thing as this be creeping or stealing upon the World like k Rev. 16â— 15. a thief in the night to * Luk. 1. 35. umbrage all the dark shades of the Creature and to l Eph. 1. 10. gather up all that is but seemingly such into the full m Heb. 1. 3. Brightness of the Fathers Glory in Him that Really is so And if a savoury Specimen or Tryal hereof be candidly imparted to us in and by the ensuing Epistle let no man run among the Plot-mongers of the World for some execrable Stratagem or Hell-bred Device whereby to elude the Discovery For the Thing in it self is Spiritual and Heavenly and of a Divine Nature falling sweetly upon us like the n Deut. 32. 2. Dew upon the grass or small rain upon the tender herbs and such must they be that can give it any more than a civil Entertainment and yet surely such there are that can open their doors to such o Jâ—b 31. 32. Strangers as these and be mighty glad of their Company Heb. 13. 2. neither can there be in it matter of Disparagement or Discouragement or Prejudice or Disadvantage in the least to any but such as either p 1 Cor. 2. 14. do not or cannot or r Exod. 5. 2. Jer. 44. 16. 1 Joh 5. 20. will not understand it since of this kind of Å¿ Isa 50. 4. John 6. 45. 1 Thes 4 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Learning above all the rest it is most truly and properly said that non habet inimicum praeter ignorantem i. e. it hath no enemy besides the ignorant man and one whose ignorance is the mother of his Devotion The Letter Worthy Sir I Received your Love in the Lines and * A Discourse of the Freedom of the Will by Mr. P. S Book you sent me for so I do with much thankfulness acknowledge and interpret your accosting me with so free and large and noble a Present the posthumous Work of a Person that was indeed of an a Prov. 17. 27. excellent Spirit whereby b Heb. 11. He being dead yet speaketh as a Man of rich and rare Endowment a Star of the first Magnitude among those that were able to see him and understand his worth I have not yet had time to read the Book throughout but from what I have sedulously and with great delight perused I should not stick to assert if that might signifie any thing that the same Divine Glory appears in the Work that was formerly wont to c Eccles 8. shine upon the face of the Workman in all the true Lineaments of the most perfect and well-accomplished Beauty It needs not to be denied but that the same Vail that was upon his Speakings may still abide upon his Writings like that upon the d face of Moses which the Apostle 2 Cor. 3. 3 14. tells us is to this day remaining untaken away and that it cannot be removed till Christ himself removes it which vail he says is done away in Christ. The Prophet Isaiah likewise speaks of e a vail