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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41577	An incorruptible key composed of the CX Psalme wherewith you may open the rest of the Holy Scriptures ... / by Samuel Gorton, Gent. ...	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1647 (1647)	Wing G1306; ESTC R17721	247,348	274

new service or sacrifices to please God and to compose compile and contract the bulke and body of the people together to make strong the arme of flesh z in which the crosse of our Lord is never found nor doth his Kingdome consist in any such things z Ier. 17. 5. and therefore our Apostle protests by the Victory and Lordship hee hath in Christ that he is in a continued act of death unto them all a Ioh. 18. 36 Rom. 14. 17 18. Therefore it is that he addes to his protestation and affirmation if saith he I have fought with Beasts at Ephesus b 1 Cor. 15. 31. meaning such Beasts as bear up that beautified woman c 1 Cor. 15. 32. clothed in purple which he compriseth in the state of that City of Ephesus calling them Beasts in the plurall number that is if I have sought with States Policies d Rev. 17. 3 4 5. Corporations Cities Soldiers Synods Ecclesiasticall Assemblies and Jewish Synedrions yea Captaines and Troopes fighting with the arm of flesh for an earthly and carnal temple and sanctuary which all use their heads and hornes together with those severall Crowns or Authorities that are put upon them for the preservation of that woman brought forth by them and maintained upheld and born upon them * Rev. 17. 9. to 14. if saith he I have fought with such after the manner of men what advantage is it to me if the dead rise not that is if I have done it after the course custome and ordinary way of all flesh or of man that is all mankind it availeth nothing at all unto the resurrection of the dead but meerly to the setting up of the flesh which is a quenching killing or putting to death of the spirit e 1 Thes 5. 19. 1 Cor. 2 8. Heb. 6. 4 5 6. For the manner of humane fighting is this namely in the preservation of its own life to take away and destroy the life of another in the setting up of himself to pull down another in the healing of him self to putrifie another in the strengthening of himself to weaken another in the honouring of himselfe to vilifie and disgrace another For if there were none to be vilified and disgraced there were no place for the grace honour of this present world Such are the fighting combats of men who ever they incumbant but the manner of the warring of the Sonne of God and of all the Saints in him even of that Michael and his Angels that sight against the Dragon and his Angels f Revel 12. 7 which our Apostle according to that worke of faith assumeth unto himselfe Therefore saith if I have fought even as he saith according to my Gospel g Tim. 2. 8. which fight is after the manner of that Marshall and heavenly discipline taught from an high descending from this our High Priest and Captaine of our Salvation h Heb. 2. 10. which is farre otherwise yea contrary unto it standing in flat opposition to that of the world yea it is Christ and Antichrist when matter of and for Religion are ascribed and given thereunto it is Christ in that way of the sword of the Spirit and spirituall combate in his strift to save the Soules of men from a spirituall death and to instate them in a life spirituall and eternall i Iohn 2. 25. Rom. 6. 23. Rom. 5. 21. Mar. 10. 30. Iohn 3. 15. Iohn 6. 54. and it is Antichrist in that way of the Arme of flesh and strength of the reason and understanding of man who ever strives to settle men in a Church way for life and salvation in such wayes institutions and Ordinances as must of necessity leave them at the time of their death at the furthest k Heb. 7. 22 23 24. Col. 2. 20 21 22 23. Prov. 23. 4. 5 Psal 102. 26 Which Bellowes are so infident unto the Priests of our times to blow and they are no lesse diligent and frequent therein then those Paiests were in the time of the Jewes to stirr up and kindle a fire in Herod Pontious Pilate the Souldiers and the rest of the people of the Jewes to put our Lord to death l Mat. 26. 59 Marke 14 55 56. Iohn 11. 46 47 48. Mark 15. 1 2. 3. Luke 23. 1. 2. 23. 24. for the reformation honour and peace of their state m Luke 23. 2 Iohn 11. 48 49 50 51. Acts 24. 5. 6. into which they expect Christ to come according to the flesh or so as to sute their brutish and naturall apprehensions and apitites for such a Christ and Christianity the world hath ever looked for n Mat. 20. 21 22 23. Iohn 4. 11. 12. Iohn 7. 25 26 27. 47. 48. 49. And therefore judge it most meete to rid the world of him in case his doctrine be heavenly and spirituall yea if the words he speakes be spirit and life the proper act order and discipline of the world * Ioh. 6. 36. is to destroy and take away that life or spirit to preserve and maintaine its owne that walkes not in the Spirit but according to the carnall desires and immaginations of the flesh o Rom. 5 6 7 8. Gen. 6. 5. Gal. 5. 17. the fight therefore of the Sonne of God and of all Sonnes in him is on this wise namely in the taking away of his own life to begin and beget life in another p Iohn 10. 11. 15 16 17. Esa 40. 11. Iohn 6 51. in the laying downe and humbling of himselfe to raise and lift up another q 2 Cor. 8. 9. Phil. 2 5. 10 11. in the purifying of himselfe though he knowes no putrifacation r Psal 16. 10. 2 Cor. 5 21. to purifie and heale another for this seede of immortality is sowne in Corruption but it riseth in Incorruption s 1 Cor. 15. 42. in the weaknesse of himselfe to give strength and power to another for that seede of life is sown in weaknesse in us or in our nature but it riseth in power as our nature is raised in it t 1 Cor. 15. 43 yea in the dishonour and villification of himselfe he honoureth and putteth grace upon another for ever for the seede of God is sowne in dishonour but it riseth in glory u 1 Cor. 15. 43. it is sowne in that dishonourable state of silly man but it is raised in the glory and dignity of the Sonne of God who is not nor can be otherwise made manifest or appeare to be what he indeed is unto or in the Creature in any other way but through our infirmity no more then the Excellencies of the Soule of man can appeare to a naturall eye when it is separated from the body and not in union or onenesse with it fighting therefore with unreasonable men or beasts w 1 Cor. 15. 32. for all men have not faith * 2 Thes 3. 2. and then they are as

into the time of death and the time of life the time of descension the time of ascension yea into a time of wrath and a time of reconciliation and peace For there was ever a time of Antichrist for he comes out of the bottomlesse pit n Rev. 9. 23 Rev. 11. 7. Rev. 17. 7. in which condition and state Christ hath no time at all there was ever a time of Christ also who comes out of the bosome of the Father o Mat. 3. 17 Col. 1. 13. 2 Pet. 1. 16 17. Iohn 1. 18. in which state and condition Antichrist hath no time at all therefore a plurality of times yea Christ himselfe never lived unto the flesh and he ever lives unto the spirit which is a two fold time ever never and without the communication of these times the Church of God can have no being Again she is in the wildernesse for half a time or for the division of times as the Prophet Daniel hath it p Dan. 7. 25 whence our Apostle brings it that is in that very point and moment of time of the incarnation or of making the word flesh * Iohn 1. 14. is divided into a time of life and a time of death in such sort as the one is not nor can it be so much as the twinkling of an eye before or after the other no more then God to become Man can be sooner or later then Man becomes the Sonne of God and so is the very moment or point of time divided in such sort that it could never be said Now this is and the other is not yet no not with the quickest eye that ever cast it selfe upon an object Nay this division of time is such a parting halfing or dividing of it that it holds correspondency and proportion both in respect of the time of life as also in the time of death in all points for they stand in direct oppositions and counterpoise each other in as much as the Son of God to dye the death of Man and the Son of Man to live the life of God are of equall extent yea of the same difficulty and ease possibility impossibility the one as the other and so are all other things in this division for these are the two great wings given unto the woman wherewith she takes her flight * Rev. 12. 14. which are not according to nature as in the things trimly alluded unto namely the wings of a Foule in their first institution and ordination if they hold not presize proportion in all respects so that her descension into the wildernesse is her mounting aloft unto Heaven as an Eagle doth and her mounting up to Heaven is her descension into the wildernesse after the prey as an Eagle doth yea her descension is her ascension her ascension is her descension For she appeares in heaven as the Man did first in the Garden from thence the Son flyes in her womb into the wildernesse as an Eagle after the prey to swallow up death in victory the Son being brought forth by her in the Wildernesse in him she is caught up into the Throne of God to rule over the Nations * Rev. 12. 5. and to overcome the Divell and his Angels even as the woman was made in the man at the first Creation Ruler and Lord over all the Workes of Gods hand r Gen. 1. 27 28. We conclude then that the woman is in a solitary waylesse uncomely and uncomfortable condition in the Wildernesse as men conceive so long as the humiliation of the Son of God in our nature and the exaltation of our nature in being united with the word can bee devided and separated and not a jot longer which is impossible to find know understand or apprehend the one without the other in the truth or operation thereof no not for a moment of time onely mens carnall Speculations carry hurry them after meer pictures shaddowes and Idolls that are empty and vaine ſ Ier. 10. 8 9 10. Psalm 97. 7 1 Cor. 8. 4. Psalm 96. 4. 5. Psalm 115. 4 to 8. not knowing the truth certainty and subsistance of that Word of grace given unto us upon such infallible grounds and gladsome tearmes as the Gospel of God brings it and commends it unto us in Those therfore that make a time of the Womans being in the Wildernesse and a time of the destruction of Antichrist A time also of the calling of the Jewes c. before the Church of GOD can attaine its peace beauty power authority excellencie and ornaments in this World They also make a time betweene the humiliation and exaltation of Jesus Christ betweene his living to the spirit and dying in and to the flesh t 1 Pet. 3. 18 2 Cor. 13. 4. and so destroy and make a nullity of Christ unto themselves and to all them that heare such doctrine with approbation for they preach Christ in the enticing words of mans wisdome and naturall conjectures and operations of mens hearts and not Christ the onely wisdome and power of God u 1 Cor. 2. 4 5 6 7. 1 Cor. 1. 17. 2 Pet. 1. 16. 2 Cor. 1. 12. Col. 2. 4. 1 Cor. 1. 24 25. who is seen by no other light but his own and therefore a Name is given unto him that none can know but himself and He is called the Word of God x Rev. 6. 12 13. which according to humane reason and the common custome of mens alleadging of Scriptures in their proofe of Doctrine the wickednest man that lives or the weakest child that can but reade may know it being so plainly manifested as there it is and yet he affirms that none can know it but himselfe which therefore must have more in it then any in the world that is not made one with Christ by Faith and so said to be himselfe can possibly know or see And so it is in all other words of holy Writ what ever the world may think or judge of it Those also that thinke to bring the woman out of the wildernesse by institutions ordinances baptismes eldership confessiōs receptions expulsions rearing up Fabricks reformatory as preparations or rather parts and peece meales of that glory they look for and expect when the time comes of the womans comming out of the wildernesse these kind of people have ever brought the woman out of the wildernesse but it is that woman which John sees in the wildernesse sitting upon a scarlet coloured beast full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten hornes arrayed in purple scarlet colour decked with gold pretious stones and pearles having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthinesse of her fornication y Rev. 17. 3 4 5 6. which is the very portraiture of the policies power pompe and excellencies of the Churches or synagogues of this world brought out by the wisdome art authority and endeavours of men to present a