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A looking-glass for a proud pharisee (very zealous and very ignorant:) as also for a true Christian (very meek and very mercifull:) discovering an effectual way (by the mysterie of God) for the healing of the land, through the uniting al sides to God, and one to another, by Jesus Christ. Humbly presented to the city of London, by Robert Prier, a memeber of it.; Cristall looking-glass for a proud Pharisee.
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Prier, Robert.
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shall answer you as Christ answered the Jews If God were your father saith Christ then ye would love your Brethren Joh. 8.38 c. Now mark this all you that verbally say You beleeve in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth and yet you hate your Brethren as Cain that wicked one did who slew his brother see the reason of it and judg of it among your selves read 1 Iohn 3.12 Now Sect. 3 as Christ was said to be the Mother and proved so Christ may be said to be the childe the spiritual childe that is born Christ must be born in our hearts and then we shall grow or is to be born in men and women that come to be true Christians as the Apostle makes it plain My little children saith he of whom I travel in birth again until Christ be formed in you or born in you Gal. 4.11 19. Mark this all you that minde the shadow more then growing up into the Substance for this spiritual Childe Jesus must be born in thy heart O man or woman as well as in the womb of the Virgin Mary and then this Childe will grow up in thee and wax strong in thy spirit as he did in the days of his flesh and then thy heart shall be filled with wisdom and the grace of God through Jesus Christ will be upon thee or in thee And this Childe Jesus will increase in wisdom and thou O man or woman in whose heart this Childe is born thou shalt be in favor with God and man But I do not mean fleshly man for thou art out of favor with him for he jeers and scoffs at thee like Ishmael for Christs sake as we almost all do at this day though we talk so much of Reformation But thou O man in whose heart this Childe Jesus is born shalt be in favor with God and with the Man Christ and in this favor there is life for evermore Luke 2.40 52. Now I shall confirm what hath been said of the Childe Jesus being born in the heart of a man with Christ in the Spirit now dwelling in the hearts of some men Know ye not saith the Apostle that the spirit of God dwelleth in you and ye are the temple of God and so examine your selves Know ye not how that Iesus Christ is in you 1 Cor. 3.16 2 Cor. 13.5 Now Jesus Christ living in the heart is the ground and the hope of a Christians glory Colos 1.27 Now Christ in God and God in Christ taking up the form of this Childe Jesus and every true believing man and woman and that freely of Free-grace and all this by way of union freely read Phil. 2.6 7 8. Now God in Christ making in himself of two one new man and this by way of union with himself and the Cross of Christ as you may read Ephes 2.15 16. Colos 1.19 20. Sect. 4 Now by way of union with God in two natures every man that hath this Childe Jesus born in his heart and that by vertue of a promise such a man is the new man that the Apostle speaks of Ephes 2.15 Which comes to be made partaker of the divine nature as you may read 2 Pet. 1.3 4. Now if one should say The Childe Jesus is the second wonder in Heaven which the devil in men doth seek for to persecute That the most men in our age nay almost all men doth persecute this Childe Jesus as soon as he begins to be born but in a quite contrary way to that of the Jews and the zealous Pharisees for they persecuted this Childe Jesus from the first unto the last because he came in the form of an unlearned and weak man and he became as a servant and humbled himself for to work out a redemption for his creation Phi 2.7 8 Psal 40.6 7 8. No sufferings like unto Christs suffrings yet these blinde learned Jews and Pharisees persecuted this Jesus in the days of his flesh from the very first unto the last and said he had a devil and came to break the Law and that he was a loose fellow and a gluttonous man and a wine bibber and a friend of leud persons and they laughed him to scorn an spit in his face and struck him upon the face and scourged him and then put a gorgeous robe upon him and jeered at him but not being content with this they platted a crown of thorns and put it on his sacred head from which the precious oyntment runs down upon our souls and when they had crowned him with prickling thorns upon his tender head then they jeered him and said Hail king of the Jews and they put a reed in his right hand and they bowed the knee before him as to a King And thus the learned Jews and the precise Pharisees together with the sotish chief Priests and the rude multitude made a mocking stock of this Childe Jesus For at the first they had no room for him in the Inne but he was fain to be laid in a horse manger and there they sought to destroy him And as soon as he was grown a little in age they thrust him out of their City and led him unto the brow of an hill to cast him down headlong to break his neck thus they made him a man of sorrow and grief all along to the very last after they had made him a King they took off the purple robe from him and put his own raiment on him and led him away to crucifie him and as they went they spit upon him took the reed out of his right hand and smote him on the head and said he was a Malefactor and so to the Cross he must go and there to be hanged that is he had his arms stretched out his merciful hands were both nailed to the Cross both his feet in a cruel manner and there his natural life did languish upon the Cross for som certainhours together and in all this misery these hard hearts mocked at him and gave him vineger to drink mingled with gall and they that passed by railed on him in this distress when he hung by the hands and feet fast nailed to the Cross then they wagging their heads at him and bid him save himself and come down from the Cross Now here is one thing of note the chief Priests with the Scribes among themselves were mocking of Christ Let Christ the King of Israel A ministry or people being ignorant of Christ are the most forward to do all maner of cruelty even unto death that saved others descend from the Cross that we may see and beleeve Mark 15.29 30 31.32 Now Jesus being long upon the Cross for the sin of man at length he gave up the ghost But yet their malice did not rest here though he was dead for they came to break his legs but being prevented of that one of them took a spear and pierced his side or thrust it into his
of is Mr Bacon a man of worth if some amongst us had ears to hear and eyes to see But there are some nay many both in London and in the Country to whom he is approved both in their hearts and consciences to be an able Minister of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and one that is Evangelical and spiritual and one that is made able by the Spirit of Christ to give a good Exposition of the holy Word of God which is a strengthening of the feeble knees and the hands that hang down and this is his glory and joy as Paul said of the Church of the Thessalonians read 1 Thes 2.19 20. And this is his crown let him go where he wil. But there are some that are like the blind man as you may read in Mark 8.24 that are half-sighted men and they encountred him and cal him babler and a setter forth of strange doctrine or new doctrine that they do not know and it is strange unto them and this was Pauls condition read Acts 17.18 19 20. And so it was with Christ Ioh. 18.19 c. But when Christ doth touch these half-sighted men the second time then they shal see doctrine clearly Mark 8.25 But some do object and say that he is slow of speech and of a slow tongue and so was Moses Lord saith he I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue Exod. 4.10 But if Moses his Lord be with his mouth and the Lords Christ teach him what he shal say for the Lords Aaron can speak well and will be glad in his people and he will be there spokesman I mean God in Christ is and will be with those of a slow tongue when he hath made them like unto Moses and then he will teach them and they shall teach others Exod. 4.12 14 15 16 7.1 2. I desire that I may not be accused of seeking the applause of these men that I have spoken of for the praise of men to me is as a feather upon my sleeve which the wind will blow away but I have had thoughts of their worth and not of theirs onely and so I rest Now you that make your boast of the Law and seem for to be a light and a guide of the blinde and instructers of the foolish and teachers of babes and yet dishonor you the Lord and break the Law of God which you would seem to uphold Rom. 2.17 18 19 20 21 22 23. If ye fulfil the royal Law according to the Scripture then you would love your neighbor as your self James 2.8 But how little of this Law of Faith and Love do you practice among your neighbors if they be not of the same minde which you are Do not you turn away from them with pride and disdain 1 John 3.23 and so begin to speak evil of them James 4.11 under some notion as Antinomian that will have no Law of God to be their rule nor ask for the pardon of sin and live as they list And so you begin to call them Sectaries and say there must be some course taken with them for they are infectious But if you had the Law of Christ in your hearts that would be kinde and suffer long and not envy nor vaunt it self nor be puffed up as some are nor seek her own nor easily be provoked as the most are love thinketh no evil 1 Cor. 13.4 5. And if in any thing ye be contrary minded one to another God must reveal even this unto you and love will suffer long for it Phil. 3.15 But on the contrary side Sect. 6 I my self have heard Master Calamy to the grief of my heart in an open and publike Congregation make these people loathsom by his expressions meaning nay naming these Antinomians or Law-destroyers saying That these people are worse then the Papists for they would but take away the second Commandment and that they are worse then the Prelats for they would but take away the fourth Commandment and that they are worse then the bloody Cavallers that burned Towns and dashed out the brains of men But saith he These men do labor for to dash out the brains of all the Commandments at once or to this effect Now the Caution given with the accusation which is false in reference unto those that lye under this odious name of Antinomian But his Caution was That they should be as wary of them and shun them as they would shun a man that hath the plague and have nothing to do with them And this caused such postures and such jestures and such sighing in many of the hearers that it caused a second grief of heart in me to see it and when they came forth from hearing they fell into scorning and disdaining of the innocent and contemning of the upright But you will object and say Object That I would not have errors nor Sectaries spoken against I answer Sol. I would not have Wheat called Tares nor Tares called Wheat as many men do that judg of Spiritual Truths with carnal reason and so they call truth error and error truth Neither would I have the hearts of the righteous mad sad whom God hath made glad neither would I have the hand of the wicked strengthened Eze. 13.22 Neither would I have the Lambs of Christ to want their food read Joh. 21.15 and then put into a Beats skin and worried with the tongue and bitter words Psal 64.3 Now this is the fruit and the effect of those filthy devil-like names as Antinomian Independent The devil would have no law of God neither would he depend upon God therfore clothe men and women with these names and then they shall be odious but let some take heed lest they be like the accuser of the Brethren which is cast down Revel 12.10 I am perswaded there are many that shall live in Heaven together that do not live in love and peace upon the earth together And this is the issue and the sad effect that those filthy names do produce which are frequent abroad and it is an abomination to the Lord for to sow discord among Brethren Prov. 6.16 17 18 19. If there be any errors abroad or any thing amiss throw your foolish and filthy names aside and preach the Gospel of peace if you can tell how for that onely will bring health and cure and amendment and reveal the truth and bring abundance of peace and truth read Jere. 23.6 7 8. Which will be as the Fathers Commandment and as a loadstone to draw thee up into Christ out of whom thou shalt proceed and be born read Ephes 1.4 5. Gal. 4.19 Isa 66.12 13. 49.22 Christ and a Christian together 23. And Christ who is the Law of God shall be with thee when thou goest and shall lead thee and when thou sleepest he shall keep thee and when thou awakest he shall talk with thee read and consider these Scriptures Psa 32.8 Prov. 6.22 For Christ is a lamp