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A60227	The life and death of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., or, A short narrative of the main passages of his earthly pilgrimage together with a true account of his purely Christian, peaceable, spiritual, gospel-principles, doctrine, life and way of worshipping God, for which he suffered contradiction and reproach from all sorts of sinners, and at last, a violent death, June 14. Anno, 1662 : to which is added, his last exhortation to his children, the day before his death.	Sikes, George.	1662 (1662)	Wing S3780; ESTC R19959	148,120	164

The World was no longer worthy of him He is therefore gone from the earth But his Person and righteous Testimony shall be ●ad in everlasting remembrance Psal. 112. 6. His eye was fixed upon a better Countrey the Saints everlasting Rest. There the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest Those that have been made Prisoners and out-casts in this world as the off-scouring of all things shall rest together there They shall no more hear the voice of the oppressor Job 3. 17 18. The present enjoyments and blessedness of this deceased Saint do set him clear out of the reach of his enemies malice or my pen. He steaddily sees and unchangeably enjoyes what Paul before quite rid of his mortal body had but the transient view of in a short rapture when caught up to the third heaven 1 Cor. 12. or into that vision of God in Christ that is exhibited to the double-portioned Saint that sits on the Throne with Christ. 'T is the favourable presence of God in Christ onely that makes heaven to angels or men God's threefold various presence with his Church in and through Christ makes the three heavens That presence that is afforded in the adaequate intelligible form to the highest life and discerning of the double-portioned Saint the Bride the Lambs Wife makes the third heaven That which is given forth in the adaequate intelligible form to the elect Angels and Spirits of just men made perfect as the sutable immediate object of their discerning makes the second heaven That presence of God together with the fruits of it that in Christ is afforded to Saints on earth makes the first They have their conversation in this first heaven Phil. 3.20 or lowest kind of presence and converse of Christ in spirit They do live in the exercise of that spiritual seed and those principles which when fully awakened in the resurrection will render them fit inhabitants of the second and third heavens Paul in the short glance he had of that most excellent glory of God in Christ that is intelligible or discernable to the most exalted sort of Saints tells us he heard unspeakable words or saw unspeakable things which it is not lawful or possible for a man to utter Here then I must take off my hand and leave you to make the best you can of it in silence and wonder Thus have I cast in my small mite towards the vindication of the Person Doctrine and Way of this choice anointed one of the Lord and faithful assertor of his Countries Liberties unto Death from the groundless aspersions causeless hatred misprisions and injuries that have fallen to his share in this world There are two sorts of enemies who in the rage and vain imaginations of their hearts have reproached blasphemed assaulted affronted resisted and persecuted Christ in him They are both deciphered Psal. 2. 1. under the titles of Heathen and People I have a word of two to divide between them and speak to each of them apart My first word is to a People of God who in whatever variety of form perswasion or way have all of them with one consent separated from Rome as justly loathing and nauseating her most gross visible Idolatries and abominations They have also separated from the dry impertinent formality of a meer outward profession of Protestantisme under a superstitious Episcopacy These they have separated from on the left hand it was their duty so to do But they have also separated from or rather cast out the spiritual Believer and true heir of the everlasting Kingdom on the right hand This is their great sin that has brought a prophane heathenish superstitious idolatrous Interest over their heads again and run all a-ground They have demonstrated themselves to be of that spirit that Paul reproved in some of the Corinthian Church that would be reigning as Kings in the but renewed principles of humane nature and righteousness of man 1 Cor. 4. 8. When therefore this true heir sounded his trumpet in his RETIRED MEDITATIONS and proclaimed another sort of Saints men of another spirit other principles and a more excellent way of life to be the onely true heirs of the Kingdom and possessed of the true reigning Principle they could not bear it They have chosen rather to give the Scepter back again into any hand then the true heir of the heavenly Kingdom should wield it I mean not a Person onely but a People a People prepared for the Lord. Whoever you be that have thus demeaned your selves and sinned away twenty years Mercies and Deliverancies whatever your Judgment Form or Way be as to this or that particular Doctrine or Ordinance if you yet lodge but in the renewed old Adam state of life or first-creation spirit and principles as you have seen them above-charactered to you it is I direct this word You that are in some good measure and degree inwardly cleansed from the pollutions of this world the corruption of nature give me leave to tell you you may be thus wash'd and baptized by the word of truth into a practical experimental knowledge of Christ after the flesh and conformity with him as he was ●ound in the flesh born of a woman made under the Law for your sanctification Let me tell you further you may be made comely through his comeliness or righteousness of that sort put upon you or imputed to you for your justification You may over and above all this be adorned with many jewels and bracelets excellent gifts and the tongue of men and angels and yet fall short of the glory and righteousness of God in the new and everlasting Covenant and so may prove to be at last but sounding brass or tinkling cymbals Ez. 16. 11 12. 1 Cor. 12. 31. 13. 1. All your sanctified justified beautified and adorned state in which you flourished was but the rectified adorned first-covenant natural man and you took all to be spiritual new-covenant Life and ornament This is one of the saddest mistakes mortal men are subject to and is like to cost them dearest Their disappointment is fatal and irrecoverable Their work is exceeding dangerous in kicking against the pricks persecuting of Christ in the true spiritual believer But their case is no●remediless as they may see in Paul till they knowingly and malitiously say Come this is the heir let 's kill him and the inheritance shall be ours There are those from amongst these Legal spirited professors both Pastors and People that have had their share in betraying this just man in blaspheming his Principles and Doctrine in casting reproaches upon him while living and pleasing themselves to think that they are now well rid of him his Doctrine and Way by his Death Deceive not your selves His testimony has received a more signal ratification by his Death then in all his Life He warn'd you of many things In reference to one of his warning-pieces as to the making clean riddance of Antichrist from amongst us I shall ask

beloved Son so 1 Tim. 1. 2. 2 Tim. 1. 2. and 2. 1. They are also called Pastors Mothers and Nurses to both the Seeds or Children of Christ in their kind 1 Thes. 2. 7 and 11. Gal. 4. 19. In another respect every true believer as he becomes the Child so is the Mother of Christ as with pangs and throw's towards the new birth to the loss and at last death of the single activity of his fleshly mind and heart Christ in spirit be formed and brought forth in him by him Then comes the Life of Faith the true reigning New-Ierusalem Principle in which reason has its resurrection the kingdom of heaven within him He ownes Christ in his heavenly headship as his Lord and King expressed Cant. 3. 11. by setting the Crown upon his head owning a willing subjection to the Law of the Spirit of Life in this day of espousal to him which is a day of gladness to Christ good men and angels Luk. 15. 10. The believer is the wise Virgin who becomes at same time the Mother and Spouse of Christ brings forth her own Lord and King in Spirit as the Virgin Mary brought him forth in Flesh. In the very day that Christ is thus brought forth in and by the believer they are espoused together by the new and everlasting Covenant The believer owns Christ as Head Husband and King Upon this Christ rejoyces Angels rejoyce the Believe● himself rejoyces with joy unspeakable and full of glory 'T is a solemn thanksgiving day a day of gladness of the heart unto them all Thus in a various sence is Christ Father and Son of the Spiritual believer and the believer the Mother and Child of Christ. Christ is Head Lord King Husband Brother Son Fellow-heir to believers They are Body Subjects Wife Children Members Fellow-heirs to him All these expressions are Allegorical borrowed from natural Relations to signify spiritual Mysteries of love union and converse between Christ and his Church One thing is said and a farther more excellent thing meant The Apostle having spoken of the duties of Husbands and Wives towards one another winds up all into this as his main intendment the spiritual marriage-union between Christ and his Church This saies he is a great mystery or mystically signifies a far greater thing concerning Christ and his Church Ephes. ● 22 23. The Revelation in a manner all along is a description of heavenly things by such earthly Mediums such Allegorical types and expressions as are borrowed out of Moses Pentateuch in the Tabernacle and Temple-worship And of Christ himself t is said that without a parable a similitude an allegory he spake not unto the people Mat. 13. 34. Mark 4. 34. Must not he then that truly expounds those parables allegorize them But how must he do it Parable in the Hebrew is a word that signifies sharpness as proceeding from a sharp wit and needing the like to interpret it That sharp wit must be no less than spiritual discerning and that strong and well exercised too or Scripture Riddles will be too hard for it One or two more of these let us take notice of Sampsons typical Riddle together with the Philistines exposition does yet want an exposition Out of Christ the strong Lion of the tribe of Iudah as the eater or sacrificer of the natural man in himself and us by the fire-baptism comes the choicest meat the sweetest hony-comb of all that that feeds and brings us into a conformity with him in his death and resurrection Christ ha's left his own interpretation of the parable of the Sower and Seed of the Tares and the like upon record in Scripture and yet who understands them how much do men yet need an exposition of those very expositions Paul tells us Hagar and Sarai are an Allegory two Covenants Gal. 4. 24. Then he mystically expounds Ishmael and Isaac into two 〈◊〉 of Christ the true antitypical Father of the faithful in both Covenants He declares moreover that he that 's born of this Father but after the flesh will persecute him that 's born of the same Father after the spirit Even so it is now vers 29. Notwithstanding this Allegorizing exposition given by Paul how little does the self-confident legal Christian hold himself concerned in the character of him that is born after the flesh How verily does he conceit himself to be the other that 's born after the Spirit Hereupon he just●es out the spiritual man indeed for a Fanatick wrangler a fool a mad man a blasphemer any thing that he lists to call him Hos. 9. 7. At last he comes to this downright willful resolution as Esau against Iacob and as the professing religious Iewes against Christ in the very same case Come this is the heir let 's kill him and the inheritance shall be ours They imagine this vain thing even to take the kingdom of Heaven by force from the right owner But if this eager-spirited generation would but give themselves leisure to consider this● the like Scriptures they might see that they that are charactered here by him that 's born after the flesh are a holy seed of Christ that have Covenant interest in him and actual communion with him They are Children of Hagar or the first Covenant One would wonder how they should miss this But they shuffle it oft upon the Iews that were under the ceremonious dispensation of the Law and so rid their hands of it Is there no legal Christian then is there no danger of the leaven of the Pharisees under the outward dispensasation of the Gospel Yes say they but that lies onely at their door who depend upon their own personal operations for their acceptance and communion with God not on the imputed righteousness of the Redeemer I interrogate When Paul describes his Pharisaical state he tells us he was touching that righteousness which is in the Law blameless Could this be unless by the comeliness of God put upon him or perfect righteousness of that kind from Christ imputed to him Ezek. 16. 14. Was he a legal Iew was he any more than a moral Heathen else But if what is above said will not help to rectify this mistake I shall be somewhat hopeless of being instrumental to your relief in this point 'T is sad to see the self-pleasing interpretations of this and the like Scriptures all along the Bible so universal and unscrupled amongst all sorts of Professors an epidemical mistake How to lift them out of the mire of these their own self-bewildring imaginations who knowes but Christ Flesh and the carnal mind that 's enmity to God Rom. 8. 7. must never be of any larger compass or farther significancy with them than corrupt polluted debauched degenerate nature dead in trespasses and sins or at best but the moral heathen with some glimmering revivals and sparklings of rational Light and Life But as for their part they are in Christ they experience actual communion with God and once in Christ for ever

have the greater sin as Christ told Pilate But Pilate also however he may flatter himself and wash his hand of it he can't wash his heart or render himself guiltless of the blood of that just Man as his Wife being admonished in a dream warned him to keep himself 'T is said both by Romane Historians and Greek Writers of the Olympiads that Pilate was accused by the Iews to the Romane Senate and so continually vexed by the Emperour Cajus Caligula that about the Year 39 being five or six years after the Passion he killed himself with his own hand But what truth had that last charge in it that he made himself a King or had spoken any thing against Caesar These very Iewes themselves would fain have had him owned himself as their temporal King to deliver them from the Romane Yoke so indeed they were the Traytors if any body Pilate himself had been pulled off the bench if that could have bin But Christ would not accept the offer though as the Son of David in a direct line the temporary Soveraignty might seem to be his right He perceived they would take him by force to make him a King and away went he to a mountain himself alone Ioh. 6. 15. And in his answer to their ensnaring question about tribute he quite non-plust and silenced them Give saies he unto Caesar the things that are Caesars Mat. 22. 15 22. Be subject to his jurisdiction in temporals the outward actions and concerns of your bodily life yea though forc'd by the Romane sword to promise allegiance to him Ieremy tutored the Iews to like effect to submit to Nebuchadnezzar ●hough a forreign Prince and Conquerour And God himself espouses Nebuchadnezzars quarrel against Zedekiah calling the engagement he made with Nebuchadnezzar HIS Covenant and HIS Oath and holding himself concerned in point of honour to recompense the breach of it upon Zedekiah's head Ezek. 17. 11 21. Zedekiah signifies the righteousness of Iah or Iehovah This name was given him by Nebuchadnezzar to intimate to him that if he broke Covenant the righteousness of the Lord would not suffer him to scape unpunished Accordingly it came to pass He is taken by the Caldean Souldiers brought to the head Quarters at Riblah a place between Ierusalem and Tyre where Nebuchadnezzar lay to hear the news from both his Leagures before those famous Cities There a Council of War sits on him the sentence is That his sons be slain before his eyes then that his eyes be put out and that he be carried prisoner to Babylon where he died not long after This he got by breach of Covenant 2 King 25. 1 7. Christ advised the Iews to keep their Covenant with Caesar as Ieremy with Nebuchadnezzar he paid him tribute himself Mat. 17. 27. If Caesar will have more than his due if he will invade Gods Prerogative venture out of the proper sphere of worldly Magistracy which relates but to the bodily actions and concerns of this mortal Life 1 Cor. 6.3,4 if he demand those things that peculiarly belong to God that other mens Consciences and Light as to Religion and divine Worship be levelled squared and regulated by his who it may be has none at all then Caesar himself is to blame as a sacrilegious intruder into the proper Rights of Christs Kingdom see be ●o that They are commended of God that conscientiously deny him obedience therein as most justly refusing to become servants of men in things perteining unto God 1. Cor. 7. 23. It was suggested The King could not be safe while VANE was alive Why what would he do No man more disswaded from popular tumults even against this power that God hath permitted to be brought over us then he His demeanour in this point was much like that of Ieremy amongst the Iews who disswaded them from conspiracies with Egypt or insurrections against the King of Babylon But why was not care taken to remove all sinister and prejudicial reports as to this matter from the chief in power I answer why did not Christ answer a word to the Iewes fierce accusations of him before Pilate but let Pilate take it as he would If his actions would not speak for him he was content Was this a crime in Christ Is there not rather an emphasis laid upon this regardlesness of a self-defence while his heart was fixed upon a publick good as a singular ingredient into the excellency of the sufferings of that Captain of our Salvation And shall the same deportment be reckoned culpable in his followers No man could take away Christ's Life from him Were Pilate and the Iews then guiltless in shedding his innocent blood No. Is Christ a felo de se a self murderer because he laid down his Life of his own accord Neither Gods hand and counsel had determined it should be so Act. 4. 27 28. The Iews were most execrable murderers of the Lord of glory for all that and responsible for it Pilate had his share in it too by yeilding up his own reason and conscience either to the violent importunities and most irrational out-cries of the Iews who said away with him away with him let him be crucified or to their most false and slanderous insinuations of Treason charactering him as an enemy to the Crown and dignity of Caesar which they could make no proof of Were all the affronts and injuries that were put upon this truly Christian Common-Wealths-Man who was indeed for what others talked of the Liberty of Men as Men and Christians as Christians well and orderly set together it would be difficult to find a Parallel proceeding for Injustice next that against Christ in all History humane or divine VIOLENCE and WRONG in stead of RIGHTEOUSNES and TRUTH were weighed out to him by those that p●●●●nded to hold the Scales of Iustice in their hands Psal. 58. 2. But Iudgement shall return to Righteousness Psal. 94. 15. Righteousness will come at last to have Judgement passed on its side They seem to be parted while wicked men are justified and the righteous condemned This Sufferer did usually discourse of and expect a failer of all visible reliefs to good men when others little dream't of it But has the righteous man no remedy in such a season He would familiarly invite others with himself to cast their thoughts upon what is signified Eccles. 5. 8. amongst many other Scriptures in way of resolution to this Querie If thou seest the oppression of the poor and violent perverting of Iudgement and Iustice in a Province marvel not or be not dismaied at the matter for he that is higher than the highest regardeth and there be higher that they Angels are higher than the highest powers amongst men in the Magistratical Government of this world and God and Christ are higher than they This with many like Scriptures points us upwards to a higher creature Magistracy than man's and yet higher to the original spring and eternal root of all just Magistracy in

you a Question Do you imagine that you have banished Antichrist out of your coasts your Churches by excluding the Romish beast the heathenish part of the Antichristian Church Iewel Reynolds and Whitaker against H●r●i●g Hart and Bellarmine as also other famous and learned W●●●●● of the Protestant interest White Mede and many more have from the Quiver of common reason and humane Writers drawn out and shot such arrows at that Beast that her wounds are incurable by any other Engine save the Sword and Belluine force What will you say if the very Protestant Churches in what ever variety of Judgement as to this or that particular so far forth as they have mistaken the One thing necessary the great fundamental Point or different foundation of the two Houses Christ mentions one on the sand the other on the rock Mat. 7. and have rested and gloried wholly in the lesser glory of renewed adorned man that 's to be done away should at length prove the Mystical Babylon however confidently they have passed for the true heavenly Spouse and People of Christ Under this conceit of your being the true everlasting Spouse of Christ how confident have you been that the Kings of the earth should joyn interest with you and espouse your quarrel in order to pull down and t●ar in pieces the beastly Idolatrous Antichrist of Rome What a cross blow would it be to your expectations in this kind what a sad and amazing disappointment if it should fall the other way If the Kings of the earth in the most bruitish degenerate state of wordly Monarchy should strike in with Rome against you and accomplish that prophesie upon you as the genuine intendment thereof Revel 17. 16. Shall I ask you another Question with some tendency towards a disquisition into this Riddle Do or can you imagine the Popish party and Religion in the posture it has stood these many hundred years can in her Spirit Doctrine and Principles be that glittering Strumpet which for inward Ornament holiness and exceeding likeness to the true heavenly Spouse of Christ did so dazle Iohns eyes in Patmos amidst all his ravishing Visions of God as that he wondred with great admiration to hear her tearmed by the Angel MYSTERY BABYLON the GREAT the MOTHER OF HARLOTS and ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH Rev. 17. 5 6. MEDE and many others have evidently and undeniable demonstrated that Popery is the very sink of all the old Gentile Theologie of Daemon Gods in their worshipping and praying to Angels and the souls of deceased men Some great Authors or Patrons and advancers of their most ridiculous Idolatries they have formally canonized for Saints and do pray to their departed Souls as Heroe's a rank of Demi-Gods inferiour to Angels If any were more notoriously vile in their idolatries more eminently serviceable in the propagating advancing thereof so more useful to Demetrius his subordinate Shrine-makers and Image-mongers Act. 19. they have been advanced in their Apotheoses after the manner of old heathenish Rome into the very order of Daemons or Angels and so their prayers to them as well as to fallen Angels come properly under the title of Daemonolatry or worshipping of Devils Yea the most superstitious abominations and gross bodily whoredoms that ever were found scatteredly up and down in any the most bruitish heathen States since the world began are pack'd up all together in the Papacy They may set up a Pantheon a Temple for the Catholick or universal Worship of all the old heathen Gods in all Nations as old Rome did Here 's their Catholick Religion They fall down to Stocks and worship Stones graven and molten Images the works of their own hands They are sadly derided for it with the rest of their old brother-heathens by God himself at large Esay 44. They take a piece of wood with part whereof they rost their meat and warm their hands and the residue they make a God Horace a heathen Poet scoffs at the same folly bringing in an Image that applauds it self for its good hap that when it was a rude mishapen piece of wood the Carpenter was thinking to put it to some inferiour use but all upon a suddain it came into his head to make it a God Yea the very Turks abhor the Popish Imagery and Image-worship as more against the Common light of Reason than any thing they have in their Mahumetane Moseh's or Parish Meeting-places If Iohn then should have wondred to hear that such a heathenish Church as the Romane now is and has long bin when represented to him in the Spirit Principles and gross Idolatries thereof should be called the Whore of Babylon might not all the world wonder at Iohn for his paines He might indeed in such a case have wondred the other way that that should at all be called Mystical Babylon as having so much creditable resemblance of the true Spouse of Christ as to pass for it There is no such thing as gross whoredom of body or soul in Religion or Conversation in the whole World if it be not in the apostate Romane Church in a transcendent manner 'T is certainly then some clearer finer-spirited Church which Iohn wondred should be called The Mother of Abominations some such Church as he was ready to think if Christ hath any such thing as a chaste Spouse upon earth that will keep close to him and never apostatize this is she Thus Samuel said of Eliab Iesse's eldest son Surely the Lords anointed is before him 1 Sam. 16. 6. 'T is answered there The Lord seeth not as man seeth vers 7. That that man admires and praises God regardes not and that which man regards not is of highest esteem with God Paul was no body with those that were wise and honourable in Christ as to the glory of man by him renewed in or put upon them but mean while was he whom the Lord commended 1 Cor. 4. 10. 2 Cor. 10. 12. 18. But to help open your eyes you see Popery is such a mass of gross Idolatries and commonly discernable Abominations that the very present Magistracy whom you are apt it may be to have some hard thoughts of would seem so resolute against it as to make it criminous for any to blemish their repute with such slanderous imputations as if they had the least intendment that way If you chance to object How comes it to pass then that all the more refined sorts of Christian Meetings are disturbed killed imprisoned hurried up and down from post to pillar grossly abused and injured before their Iudgement seats and the Mass onely quiet and what is next it the dry impertinent publick Assemblies under Episcopacy If you say further what mean they to force those Oathes upon us that were originally intended for the keeping of Papists quiet Why may we not expect England should shortly be made a Shambles when some moderate Papists themselves bolt out something that 's hatching which they reckon too black for them to