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A94353	Elijah's mantle: or, The remaines of that late worthy and faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Tillinghast. Viz. I. The conformity of a saint to the will of God. On Act. 21.14. II. The will of God and Christ concerning sinners. On Gal. 1.4. III. No condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. On Rom. 8.1. IV. Christs love to his owne. On Joh. 13.1. V. True gospel humiliation. On Zach. 12.10. VI. The most effectual means to kill and subdue sin. On 1 Joh. 2.2 VII. The advocateship of Jesus Christ, a great ground of saints comfort and support under sins and infirmities. On 1 Joh. 2.2. VIII. The only way for saints to be delivered from the errors and evils of the times. On 1 Tim. 6.11. IX. Of the Old Covenant, from Gal. 4.30. being so farre as the author had proceeded, in a treatise of the two covenants, before his death. Published by his owne notes.	Tillinghast, John, 1604-1655.; Manning, John, d. 1694.	1658 (1658)	Wing T1172; Thomason E1557_1; ESTC R203796	263,858	498

prosecution of this point I shall shew 1 That the Saints have in-being in Jesus Christ 2 What in-being in Christ Saints have 3 That in-being in Christ frees Saints from Condemnation Of the first Saints have in-being in Christ 1 If Saints have in-being in the Covenant of Grace then also in Christ with whom this Covenant is made but Saints have in-being in the Covenant of Grace Heb. 8.8 for finding fault with them he saith Behold the dayes come saith the Lord when I will make a new Covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah The Parties to whom this Covenant of Grace belongs are the house of Israel and the house of Iudah i.e. all the Saints The Covenant is made with Christ as Psal 89.3 I have made a Covenant with my chosen but for them that is they are the persons to whom all the priviledges and benefits of this New Covenant doe belong if therefore all the priviledges of the Covenant of Grace belong to Saints then have they in-being in the Covenant of Grace and so in Christ with whom the Covenant is made 2 If Saints are renewed after the Image of Christ then have they in-being in Christ no renewing by Christ but from in-being in Christ no depravation but from our union with the old Adam no renovation but through our union with the new Adam But Saints are renewed after the Image of Christ Col. 3.10 Beleevers are said to be renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that created him i.e. after the Image of Christ There is a knowledge that men have from their union with the old Adam i. e. natural light and natural understanding this knowledge though it were in mans first Creation very perfect yet now it is very imperfect and in a great measure lost Natural light and the Copy of Natural knowledge being much blotted by the Fall of man now Saints they are by Christ renewed in knowledge How not so much in a Natural way not in that knowledge which was a part of the Image of the first Adam but they are renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that created him i. e. the knowledge that Saints have by Christ it is Spiritual knowledge such knowledge as is a part of the Image of the new Adam so that Saints in their knowledge are renewed after the Image of Christ they have a knowledge for kind though not for degree the same with that Christ hath and as in their knowledge they are renewed after the Image of Christ so likewise in their righteousness and holiness which are the other parts of the Image of the new Adam they have such a righteousness as Christ hath and such a sanctification or holiness as Christ hath now this being so that Saints are renewed after the Image of Christ it must follow that they have in-being in Christ for renovation comes from union and in-being 3 If Saints may lay claime to Christ and what is Christs as their owne and proper right then have they in-being in Christ for in things of this nature propriety whereby I may challenge a thing for my owne comes from possession no possession no laying claime to a propriety But Saints may lay claime to Christ and what is in Christ as their owne they may lay claime to Christs Wisdome Riches Righteousness Strength Grace Glory and all as theirs and therefore they have in-being in Christ 4 If Saints are crucified with Christ quickned raised up and made to sit together in heavenly places with Christ then are they in Christ for it is by vertue of in-being that they are quickned together with him raised up and made to sit together in heavenly places Ephes 2.5 6. Even when we were dead in sins hath quickned us together with Christ and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus 5 If Saints partake of daily supplies of life grace and strength from Christ then are they in Christ for there is no participation but from union the branches partake of the juyce of the root from union with the root members partake of the life of the head from union with the head but Saints partake of daily supplies of grace life and strength from Christ without which constant supplies they grow dry and wither yea can doe nothing as Christ saith Joh. 15.5 I am the Vine yee are the branches he that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me yee can doe nothing therefore have in-being in Christ 6 And lastly If Saints can never fall finally or perish everlastingly then have in-being in Christ for it is not hanging on the our-side of the Ark but being within which keeps from drowning it is not the branches lying by the Vine but being in it that preserves it from withering But Saints can never fall finally Joh. 5.24 Verily verily I say unto you he that heareth my word and beleeveth on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemration but is passed from death to life Ch. 10 28 29. And I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand my Father which gave them me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers hand therefore they have in-being in Christ 2 But what in-being in Christ have the Saints Ans There is a Three-fold in-being in Christ that Saints have 1 A Vertual in-being in Christ as Christ is the common Person or representative of all Gods Elect and this comes meerly from Gods Election there being no other reason of it God hath elected them to Salvation and therefore hath given them to Christ who is become their common person 2 A mystical in-being in Christ as Saints are members of that true Spiritual invisible Body whereof Christ is head this comes chiefly from regeneration 3 An actual in-being in Christ not but that the former which I terme mystical is actuall too but I distinguish it from that because that is such an in-being as chiefly tends to make the Body of Christ perfect this is such an in-being as doth chiefly tend to the making of their particular persons perfect in him whereby every Saint in particular hath actual union with Christ and is actually in this blessed Person of the Lord Jesus and by being in him made perfect and actually justified from all sin now this is through faith and regeneration Obj. But have not Saints actual union before Faith is Union the fruite of faith or faith of union Ans Actual union is Two fold either Christs actual uniting himself to us or out being actually united to Christ You in me I in you there is an actual union on Christs part and on our part Actual union on Christs part that is before beleeving and is then effected when Christ first comes into us by his Spirit to draw us to his

comforting himself in this his reward should bee with God Hereupon God comes off more friendly Is is a light thing that thou shouldest bee my servant to raise up the Tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel as to say that is not worth the dying for I value thy sufferings more than so I will give thee for a salvation to the ends of the earth So that Christ struck up a Covenant with the Father in behalf of those hee saves and all that are his own they are his by Covenant 5 They are Christs own by Jointure or Inheritance What a man hath as a Jointure or an Inheritance may bee called his own Beleevers are Christs own in this respect Deut. 32.9 For the Lords portion is his people Jacob is the lot of his inheritance Zach. 2.12 And the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land and shall choose Jerusalem again 6 They are Christs own by a resignation of themselves and all they have and a subjection to him When a man hath resigned himself and all hee hath to another and subjected himself to bee wholly ruled and governed by him acknowledging all homage and obedience due to him hee may bee called that other and not his own Thus Beleevers are Christs own beleeving they imbrace him for a King as well as for a Saviour Rev. 15.3 King of Saints 7 They are Christs own by possession Possession the Proverb saith is an eleven points of the Law the meaning is that a man that hath possession will lay a great claim to right especially if a man have possession in a just and a legal way then possession is a double right Christ hath beleevers for his own in this respect for hee dwells in them by his Spirit 1 Cor 6.19 What know yee not that your body is the Iemple of the Holy Ghost which is in you which yee have of God and yee are not your own By faith Eph. 3.17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith 8 They are Christs own by Marriage-union Christ hath linked beleevers to himself in the bond of spiritual marriage hee having betrothed them to himself Hos 2.19 20. And I will betroth thee unto mee for ever yea I will betroth thee unto mee in righteousness in judgement and in loving-kindness and in mercies I will even betroth thee unto mee in faithfulnesse and thou shalt know the Lord. So that as when a man and woman are married the husband may say to his wife Thou art my own and the wife to the husband thou art my own each challenging propriety in one another So Christ and beleevers Christ may say of the beleever hee is my own and the beleever of Christ and thou Lord art my own 9 They are Christs own by membership being members of that spiritual invisible body of which Christ is head which is set forth under the Parable of the Vine and branches Joh. 15. and as the head may say of every member this is mine that is a member belonging to that body of which I am head so may Christ say of every beleeving man and woman this man and woman is my own for hee shee is a member of that body to which I am head 3 That Christ hath a love to his own appears 1 From the very nature of propriety which loves that thing I have a propriety in above other A Father loves his childe above anothers Why hee hath a propriety in it it is his own The husband loves his wife shee is his own Propriety is a begetter of affection 2 From that special respect hee hath to them above others 1 Hee hath special pity and compassion towards them in all their sufferings Isa 63.9 In all their affection hee was afflicted and the Angel of his presence saved them in his love and in his pity hee redeemed them and bee bare them and carried them all the dayes of old Heb. 4.15 For wee have not an High Priest which cannot bee touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as wee are yet without sinne Chap. 5.2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way for that hee himselfe also is compassed with infirmity 2 Hee hath a special eye over them to see to it that none hurt them Psal 105.12 13 14 15. When they were but a few men in number yea very few and strangers in it When they went from one Nation to another from one Kingdome to another People hee suffered no man to do them wrong yea hee reproved Kings for their sakes saying Touch not mine Anointed and do my Prophets no harm 3 Hee hath a special care of them to see they shall not want 4 That this love of Christ to his own is a choice and an everlasting love 1 It is a choice love for 1 It is Father-like love Psal 103.13 Like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them that fear him 2 It is a conjugal love What love more choice than Marriage-love it is to bee loved as a man loves himself Eph. 5.28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies Christ hath married beleevers his love to them is Marriage-love 3 It is dying love Such love as makes him dye for the party loved This is the greatest love of all Joh. 15.13 Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends If greatest love bee dying love then Christ did not dye for all as some will have it for hee doth not love all with the greatest love 2 It is Everlasting love 1 Love arising from an everlasting cause where the cause is everlasting the effect must bee so too What is the cause why Christ loves beleevers Why meerly his good will and leasure hee loves because hee will love This cause being everlasting the effect must bee also everlasting 2 Love supported by everlasting Pillars 1 The Pillar of his Unchangeablenesse Heb. 13.3 Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever Mal. 3.6 For I am the Lord I change not 2 The Pillar of his Truth and Faithfulnesse Christ is the true and faithful one It is a part of unfaithfulnesse to love a while and then to cease to love Christ is no such lover 3 The Pillar of his everlasting remembrance Isa 49.15.16 Can a woman forget her sucking-childe that shee should not have compassion on the Son of her womb yea they may forget yet will not I forget thee Behold I have graven thee upon the Palms of my hands thy walls are continually before mee FOR APPLICATION As there are two things mainly held forth in the Text both which I have in the doctrinal part spoken unto 1 That beleevers are Christs own 2 That Christ loves his own with a peculiar and everlasting love So in my Application I shall speak someching to both For the first Is it so that beleevers are Christs own

their God so also in a peculiar way he chose them to be his people Hence God is said to chuse Israel Ezek. 20.5 and Israel is called his chosen Psal 105.6 hence also this people are called a peculiar treasure Exod. 19.5 a peculiar people Deut. 14.2.26.18 a people of inheritance to him Deut. 4.20 a people established to himself Deut. 29.13 yet such was this election as that in case die condition by which it was given were not by them observed it presently became voyd and was as if there neither were nor ever had been any such thing at all therefore when Israel cast off God and chose new gods God presently casts off them will not owne them as his people deliver them any more Judg. 5.8 They chose new gods then was warre in the gates chap. 10.13 Yee have forsaken me and served other gods wherefore I will deliver you no more goe and cry unto the gods which yee have chosen let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation therefore the elected people are called Lo-ruhamah i. e. without mercy one to whom no mercy is to be extended Loammi i. e. not my people a people disowned cast off by God Hos 1.6.9 3 A resemblance there was in this Old Covenant OF VOCATION which did consist in that outward calling of Israel out of Aegypt the house of bondage place of sin and darknesse This wee have Hosea 11.1 When Israel was a childe I loved him and called my son out of Egypt In this respect Israel is stiled Gods called Hearken to me O Jacob and Israel my called Isa 48.12 But this Vocation did them no good any longer then they were obedient for as I have observed already Gods called ones out of Aegypt transgressing the Covenant dye in the Wildernesse their Vocation though they were thereby separated from the grosse ignorance and open Idolatry of Aegypt yet in respect of the benefit thereof was but temporary for so soon as they rebel against him that called them they are cut off by a stroke of Wrath their calling will not relieve them 4 A resemblance there was in this Old Covenant of RECONCILIATION AND REMISSION of sins this the whole body of their Sacrifices did look unto but the proper place to treat of this is our second Head namely the grace of the Covenant whether therefore I transmit the enlargement of this particular 5 A resemblance there was in this Old Covenant of ADOPTION this did principally lye wrapped up in Gods taking the whole body of that people with whom this Old Covenant was made into the relation of a Son and particular persons of that body into the relation of children Hence God speaking of the Body of this Nation entitles them his Son Hos 11.1 and of particular persons in this Body his children Isa 63.8 yet such this adoption was as that God did no longer owne these adopted ones for his children then they did act towards him as dutiful children towards a father therefore when Israel did rebel and cast off God God straight way cuts them off this priviledge and will no longer owne them as children but calls them Children of Whoredomes Hosea 2.4 strange children chap. 5.7 likens them to the children of the Aethiopians with whom God never made Covenant threatning withall that notwithstanding this relation he would destroy them Amos 9.7 8. 6 A resemblance there was yet further in this Old Covenant of UNION this that relative union that we read of betwixt God and that people with whom this Old Covenant was made doth hold forth Jerem. 31.32 My Covenant they brake although I was art Husband to them But this was conditional so long as they kept Covenant with God and were chaste and faithful Spouses to their Husband but no longer Hence the Apostle Paul quoting these words of Jeremy Heb. 8.9 for those words although I was an Husband to them which hee leaves out puts in these and I regarded them not saith the Lord intimating that although God was a Husband in this Covenant yet such a Husband as would no longer regard them then they kept Covenant with him they must look for no conjugal love no embraces no communion with God as a Husband any longer then they kept themselves chaste Spouses Therefore when Israel played the harlot God immediately disownes them as to this relation Hos 2.2 Plead with your mother plead for shee is not my wife neither am I her husband let her therefore put away her Whoredomes out her sight and her adulteries from between her breasts and gives them a bill of divorce Jer. 3.8 Isa 50.1 7 From this conjugal union by vertue of this Old Covenant did flow another great blessing viz. COMMUNION the Wife hath communion with her Husband and so had Israel whilst they continued a faithful Wife and this communion was such as was a resemblance of that TRVE COMMUNION the children of the New Covenant doe enjoy Notable to this purpose is that place we have Exod. 24.9 10 11. where wee read that after Israel had given their assent to the Old Covenant vers 7 All that the Lord hath said will wee doe and bee obedient and hereupon the Covenant betwixt God and them ratified and sealed by the sprinkling of bloud vers 8. immediately hereupon whilst as yet they had not by any act broken this Covenant it is said Moses and Aaron Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the Elders of Israel went up into the Mount and saw the God of Israel in his glory and did there eate and drink noting wonderful familiarity and intimate communion which they had with God by vertue of this Covenant now struck up betwixt them But observe this communion as it did depend wholly upon the condition of their keeping Covenant so the mercy is not long lived for before forty dayes are over Israel makes a Calf now is the Covenant broken God hereupon who but a little before was so familiar with them feasted them with his presence and comforts turnes to bee their enemy and saith to Moses Let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them that I may consume them Exod. 32.9 10. All their communion now is gone so that this communion was but conditional and so temporary it lasted no longer than they did obey nor could it exempt those that did enjoy it from Gods Wrath or in the least keep them from sin for future for observe Aaron who was next to Moses in enjoyment of this communion before forty dayes are run out notwithstanding the strength received from it is so weak as that hee cannot resist a temptation but tempted by the people sins most foulely and hainously makes Calf by which sin of his the very Covenant it self is broken and also Nadab and Abihu next to Moses and Aaron in the enjoyment of this priviledge within a very little time after transgressing fall into the hands of God and are cut off by the stroak of his wrath yea of all the four