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A89271	An explicite declaration of the testimony of Christ according to the plain sayings of the Gospel: and therein, of the purposes, promises, and covenants of God, as by Gospel declared. With, a consideration of a question stated about faith. By Thomas Moore, Senior.	Moore, Thomas, Senior.	1656 (1656)	Wing M2593B; ESTC R231372	616,621	754

all anointed and called Shepherds to rule order lead teach and minister Jer. 3.15 23.4 5 6. and so suitable to that prophesie by Jeremiah and a spiritual first Fruits of it for here is Jesus Christ the anointed of God into whose Lips Grace is poured the great and mighty King the Prophet and great High-Priest over the House of God the good Shepherd of his Flock sitting in his Body in the Heavens at the right Hand of God till he come again and take to him his great Power and Raign that is also the Anoynter and in sending forth of Spirit hath given gifts unto Men to get him a spiritual Kingdom amongst Men and to order it till he come to take them to raign with him 1 Joh. 2.20 And so he by his Spirit is present with them and anoynteth them and maketh them a spiritual House an holy and royal Priesthood 1 Pet. 2.5 9. to shew forth his vertues and offer spiritual Sacrifices to God by him suitable to and a spiritual first Fruits of that prophecied by Isaiah and so as he hath put his Word Isa 66.20 and therein laid the Foundation in them so he hath filled and fitted them in his anointing with spiritual gifts to hold forth teach and so lay the same Foundation for others and to convince them of the falseness of all other Foundations and to draw and build them up on this Foundation and to help them to growth and feeding thereon and for direction for walking therein till they come to the fulness of possession Eph. 2.17 22. so richly were these first VVitnesses furnished in the Faith having both the Gospel in such full and clear knowledge and all these spiritual gifts immediately from Jesus Christ himself whose personal body they both saw and heard even after his Resurrection And whereas Paul seemed to be born out of due time for this yet it was vouchsafeth him and he did and was the last that did both hear and see him in his personal Body and receive the Gospel and these spiritual gifts immediately from him 1 Cor. 15.8 9. 9.1 2. Gal. 2.11 12 21. Luk. 16.29 2 Pet. 1.15 3.2 and by that he proves his Apostleship and in this immediateness of receit and commission they have no Successors but do continue with us in all their knowledge and gifts by and in the Gospel recorded by them 3. That the end for which all these gifts were given them was for perfecting the Saints that is Eph. 4.12 all that are prevailingly called by his Grace and so united to him and sanctified by and to him and for his service not limiting this to outward Officers nor engaging it to all them some of them it may be not being such Saints but limiting it to such Saints and enlarging it to all them for perfecting them for the work of the Ministery the Ministery of the Saints of the whole Body whereof no Member is Officeless or useless but each hath some Service or Ministration and fitness for it and spirit of life running therein and so a Ministration for the edifying of the Body of Christ and this such an edification as is for the growth of the Body both in multitude of converts and their growth in Union Fellowship and Conformity every Member in this sense growing by the influence that proceedeth from the Head but yet not immediately into every particular Member nor through some outward Officers onely but as from the Head of the mystical Body so through every living Member making increase to it self in love And so the growth of the Body by that which every joynt supplieth for so gracious an end were these gifts given 4. The time of the continuance of these gifts and that is express Till we all come in the unity of the Faith c. that is Eph. 4.13 till the last Man be called that is to be called before the personal appearance of Christ till we all that is the whole company that is to meet with him and to come and raign with him meet in the unity of the Faith and of the knowledge and so the acknowledgement of the Son of God unto a perfect Man Gal. 4.3 7. Jer. 31.34 1 Cor. 13.8 9 10 11 12. 1 Joh. 3.2 a full and compleat Company a fit and suitable Corporation or Body for such an Head the measure of the stature or age of the fulness of Christ which as the knowledge of the Freedom of Sons was by his first coming so this will be at his next coming and appearing in Glory when this manner of Ministration will cease but till then they to continue in this Ministration of the Gospel True it is The Gospel that is the Faith to be taught and received Jude 3. 1 Tim. 6.13 14. 2 Tim. 1.13 2.2 2 Pet. 1.13 14 15. 3.2 Gal. 1.6 7. it was once and but once immediately given unto the Saints in these first VVitnesses but that very same Gospel is mediately continued and so to be received and held forth and no other Gospel nor another immediate giving of that unless to some Jews but that kept and held forth by the Saints till Christ come again even so these spiritual gifts to minister the Gospel with were once given and that was when Christ ascended up in our Nature to Heaven Act. 2. and then he sent them down to his Saints at once and in this immediateness and fulness as then but once but these gifts even all of them as mediately received through belief of the Gospel delivered by them which Gospel whoever unfeignedly believeth is become of them and so of Christ and so of the same seed the seed of them who are the seed of Christ and the seed of Christ his seed and his seed's seed And so this VVord and Gospel given them and the spiritual gifts given them therein and therewith and so put in them shall not depart out of them nor out of their seed Isa 59.20 21. nor out of their seed's seed from henceforth for ever and so will he make good his promise to them of being with them to the end of the VVorld Mat. 28.20 and that to this gracious end That having such a standing and enduring Gospel recorded and in that record revealed and in minding and believing thereof receiving such known spiritual gifts as all lead to exalt Christ and draw to and build on him VVe may no more be as Children tossed to and fro Eph. 4.14 15. and carried about with every winde of Doctrine by the slight of Men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive but speaking the truth in love we may grow up into him in all things which is the Head c. And so much for their blessed Furniture that is of continuance and abideth in the Church believing and professing this Gospel in some good measure throughout all ages But with this they had some other Furniture

is convinced and brought off all things to accept of and confide in Jesus and so brought out of the power of Darkness into the Kingdom of his dear Son and so by his Love believed framed to love him and that this is true Faith indeed none that I know but the deniers of Jesus to be the Christ gainsay yet is this but the farther Efficacies of the same Object of Faith beheld and so one and the same Faith still though in this degree united and made one with the Object so as it was not in the former Degree yet even in this Degree also there are divers Degrees and so some weak Joh. 2.13 14. 2 Thes 1.1 3. Rom. 3.21 22 25 26 27. Act. 6.7 2 Pet. 1.1 some stronger some stablish'd some Babes some young or strong Men some Fathers yea and in every of these Degrees some may be more grown then others and be before others yet all still in one and the same Faith and still also in this one Faith 3. There be divers Acts and Operations of this Faith 1 Thes 2.13 Act. 10.43 Gal. 2.3 5. 2 Tim. 1.7 Joh. 7.38 39. Gal. 5.22 23. Gal. 5.6 Rom. 10.10 Psal ●6 1 10. as to say a receiving Act in which is received the Word or Testimony and therein Remission of sins Justification Sanctification Liberty of access to God the Spirit of Faith Love Power and a sound Minde a springing act raising up prizings of Christ Love of God and Brethren bowels of Mercy c. a streaming Act Faith working through Love and so bringing forth the services of Love in Confession Prayers Praises Works of Mercy and Righteousness yet the Faith it self is still one and the same and so called the same the same Spirit of Faith yea when it produced Miracles 2 Cor. 4.13 Act. 4.10 11 12. the Faith was still the same though the Act extraordinary The belief of the History Rom. 10.8 9. is the belief of the Testimony of Christ which whoso believeth with his heart shall be saved and when through the Grace believed one is brought upon Christ he is justified from all sins past and in that believing receiveth continual justification Rom. 3.25 26 27. Gal. 5.7 Mat. 24.13 and if any depart from the Faith that proves temporary but he that endureth to the end shall be eternally saved the Faith it self being one still and but one Faith III. As Faith is used to express the Object of Faith Heb. 1.1 so it hath been reyealed for the full and cleer Demonstration of it at divers times and by divers parcels and degrees and at last fully and cleerly by Jesus Christ and yet that Object of Faith still one and the same each Revelation agreeing with and opening the former and so still one as hath been shewn in this whole third Part of the Treatise And because there is no Faith by the Holy Spirit called Faith but that which by his Discovery of this Object is drawn towards it in believing that the Believer might so be united to it Therefore the Faith is one yea and this Demonstration to lead us into unity because as it unites Believers in one Foundation to one Head so it makes them of one Heart and Fellowship Eph. 4.4 For there is one Body that is one Mystical Body or Corporation Fellowship and Society though the Members of this Corporation and their Offices be many yet the Corporation and Society in Faith Love and Fellowship of their Priviledges is one and all bear one Name 1 Cor. 12.12 20. Eph. 2.19 22. 1 Joh. 1.3 Cant. 6.9 Gal. 3.16 29. Hos 11.1 Rom. 8.17 Gal. 3.36 Eph. 4.4 1 Joh. 5.6 Joh. 15.26 Eph. 2.17 18. 1 Cor. 12.13 1 Cor. 2.16 Eph. 4.4 sa 45.22 Joh. 3.14 16. 2 Thes 2.14 Eph. 1.18 Eph. 4.5 Rom. 10.6 15. 1 Pet. 1.20 21. 2 Thes 1.10 Joh. 1.12 13. Eph. 4.5 the Name of Christ being called Christians And so there is but one true Church and Sanctuary that is united to Christ and shall be in and with him for ever and by vertue of their Union with Christ they are all in respect of kinde one Seed and one Son though in respect of their several particular Persons Heirs Children and Sons of God by Faith And as there is One Body so there is in it One Spirit even the Spirit of the Father and the Son that beareth forth the Testimony of Christ and enables to believe in Christ and brings to God by Christ and into this Fellowship working the Minde of Christ and so called the Spirit of Faith by whom all he calleth and so all Believers are called in One Hope of their calling The same Grace proclaimed The same looking and believing required and for the same end To be saved and to the same Hope in believing even the obtaining Eternal Life and Glory and so One Lord even the Lord Jesus Christ in whom the fulness of the Godhead dwelleth bodily and so One Faith as one Object so one Manner of believing which is Faith indeed that is produced by the Holy Spirit through the Gospel and closeth with Christ the Object of Faith and so also One Baptism one kinde and end of the gracious Operation of the Holy Spirit in Baptizing into Christ and through his Name by all the Mediums of baptizing 1 Cor. 12.12 13. Rom. 6.3 6. Gal. 3.26 27 28. called also Baptisms into conformity to Christ in his Death that they may partake of the vertue of his Resurrection and so into the Fellowship of his body drinking into one Spirit and so becoming of one minde and that the minne of Christ the Son of God even as also there is 1 Cor. 6.11 Phil. 2.1 2 5. Eph. 4.6 Eph. 1.3 17. 1 Cor. 2.6 Mat. 10.40 Rom. 16.20 25 26. 1 Pet. 5.10 ● Psa 138.8 One God and Father of all who is above all and through al and in them all that are Believers he is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and in him and shmes forth his Glory through him that Men might believe and so in and through him he is the Father of all that believe in Christ and above all able to overthrow all their Enemies and Opposers and to perfect all that concerneth them all so as all flows from and leads into Union and this Union of the Spirit bringing into the Union of the acknowledgement of the Son of God is that which the Spirit teacheth and to which all the Degrees and Operations tendeth whence we are exhorted to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace 2 Cor 114. Gal. 1.6 7 8. and so but one Faith which the Gospel calleth Faith and he that would finde out another Faith really true and holy in its kinde must first finde out another true Body that is the Church another Spirit another Jesus to be the Christ another Gospel and another Hope to call to and another God all real true and holy in their

this writing collected and on the Margent quoted the Sayings of the Gospel in the Testimony of Christ will appear plain bearing forth their own import and sense and the Testimony of Christ being known all Truth being included in it and flowing from it we shall by that be led into all Truth and so far as is for us meet and profitable understand what we read in the Scriptures so far as to discern Truth from Error in all Doctrines and Sayings brought unto us I shall therefore proceed in the next part according to the Scripture assaying to declare the Testimony of Christ An Explicite Declaration of the Testimony of Christ c. PART II. CHAP. I. Of the Testimony of Christ THe Testimony of Christ is that Testimony and Witness and Doctrine of Christ 1. Which God the Father hath by his Holy Spirit immediately first given of Christ Gen. 3.15 22.18 Act. 3.18 24. Luk. 1.70 1 Pet. 1.11 12. as the promised Seed and he in whom all Nations shall be blessed after mediately by his Spirit in Moses all the following Prophets concerning his coming and suffering and the Glory that should follow and after all this immediately to John Baptist both who he was and what a one he is and how well-pleased he is in him a Mat. 3.17 and after that mediately by his Spirit in and by John Baptist that he is the Christ upon whom the Spirit resteth full of Grace and Truth by whom it comes and that he is the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world and that he that believeth on him hath Eternal Life b Joh. 1.16 17 29-34 3 27-36 and after this immediately to three of the Apostles and first Witnesses of Christ c Mat. 17.5 2 Pet. 1.17 18. and mediately likewise before by types d Heb. 8.5 and Angels and by Zacharias e Luk. 1.32 33 67-79 2.11 30-34 and old Simeon as also in his own Ministration by the mighty works done by him in his Name John 5.36 14.10 11. 2. Joh. 3.16 17. 5 17-30 6 27-69 10. 12.50 Which Jesus Christ himself received from the Father and testified in his Ministration unto Men which also he did explicate and give unto his Apostles and first Witnesses to testifie and witness Luk. 24.25 26 27 44 45 46 47 48. Joh. 15.15 27. 17.6 7 8. Act. 1.8 3. Joh. 14.26 15.26 16 7-15 Act. 5.32 Eph. 3.5 1 Joh. 1.1 2. 2 Tim. 1.10 Which the Holy Ghost did witness to and in and by the Apostles and first Witnesses with the cleer opening and revelation of the Mystery formerly hidden till Christ had opened the holy of holies offered the acceptable Sacrifice and sate down on the right Hand of God and sending forth the Holy Ghost and by the Gospel in his Testimony opening the door to immortality and eternal life 4. Act. 5.32 13 25-39 Rom. 1 1-5 16.25 26. Which also the Apostles and first VVitnesses have by the same Holy Spirit testified witnessed preached written and recorded according to the revelation of the Mystery Ephes 3.3 4. Phil. 3.1 whence the whole Scripture is said to testifie of Christ John 5.39 of which more is said Part 1. Chap. 1 2. And this Testimony VVitness and Record is called the Record and VVitness of God and of Christ and of the Spirit f 1 Joh. 5.6 7 8 9 10. Joh. 3.33 1 Cor. 1.6 Rev. 1 2. 20.4 2 Tim. 1.8 and it is also called the Testimony Record VVitness and VVord of the Apostles and first VVitnesses of Christ because they bare it forth and left it upon record g 2 Thes 1.10 Joh. 17.20 and because it is of Christ by Christ and according to the appointment of Christ by his Apostles opening the things of Christ it is called the Doctrine of Christ h 2 Joh. 9. and in every respect it is one and the same the Testimony of Jesus Christ i Rev. 19.10 and in this Testimony so cleerly come forth is Jesus Christ plainly set forth who he is what a one he is whence he is what he became what he hath done and is become what he doth and for whom what he will do for some and who they be and what he will do against others and who they be how the good to be enjoyed and the peril to be avoided and all this is full and plain in the Testimony 1. VVho he is and that is not Adam Seth Enoch and so none of the Prophets before John Baptist nor was Iohn Baptist the Christ nor any of the Apostles or VVitnesses that followed k Luk 3 Joh. 1. 1 Pet. 1.11 12. 2 Cor. 4.5 nor is it the Church or any Society of Men though such as do indeed bear his Name though they be of his mystical Body as resembled by a King whose Body is the Commonwealth or a General whose Body is the Army or a Major whose Body is the Corporation yet are not the Commons the King or chief Magistrate nor is the Army the General nor the Corporation the Major and so Mat. 23.8 1 Cor. 8.6 Col. 1.18 Eph. 1.22 23. though the Head and Body be one yet the Body is not the Head so the Church is not the Head the Husband the Lord the King of Saints the Christ but the person of Christ is all that and none but he so that the Church Col. 1.15 21.26 27. 2 Cor. 13.3 5. 1 Joh. 3.24 Rom. 1.18 2 Cor. 4.5 though one with Christ is not the Christ nor is it any inward Frame or spiritual Light or Disposition in the Heart of the Reliever though this being right as flowing from him and effected in such as are believing on him is even the Spirit of Christ by which he is in them and dwelleth in them yet is not this the Christ the person of Christ But Jesus that very Jesus and no other but he that was born of a Virgin espoused to one Joseph a Carpenter Mat. 1 2 c. Luk. 2 3 c. and born in the time of Caesar Augustus when Herod was King of Iudea and in Bethlem in an Inn and Stable in that Inn and circumcised the eighth day and his name called Jesus who was carried into Egypt and returned again to Nazareth in Galilee and there lived a time and after was baptized of Iohn in Iordan and then went about preaching the Gospel and working Miracles called Disciples and chose Apostles suffered and was crucified under Pontius Pilate died was buried and rose again in the same Body and appeared often to his Disciples who saw and heard and felt him and received commandments from him and then he blessed them Act. 1 2 3. and ascended up to Heaven in that Body of his and fate down on the right hand of God Mat. 16.16 Joh. 6 69. and sent down the Holy Ghost to his