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A94749	A synopsis, or, Short view of essential Christianity in part, in which the first fruits unto God, (or saints) in the Apostles dayes lived. : According to the doctrine of Christ ... : With some explications or enlargements thereupon. : Tending to the edification, comfort, and refreshing of all sorts of people ... / By William Tomlinson ...	Tomlinson, William.	1684 (1684)	Wing T1853; ESTC R185375	44,494	110

A SYNOPSIS Or short view of ESSENTIAL CHRISTIANITY In Part In which the first Fruits unto God or Saints in the Apostles dayes lived According to the Doctrine of Christ and his Holy Apostles beginning at the very foundation thereof With some Explications or Enlargements thereupon Tending to the Edification Comfort and refreshing of all sorts of People that fear God and love Righteousness without respect to any one particular Form and yet not excluding all Form And which may tend also to the encouraging of others that as yet regard not God to turne to him in Submission and the obedience of Faith By WILLIAM TOMLINSON A lover of all that are of a humble Heart and that live the life of Righteousness in whatsoever form they are London Printed for B. Harris at the Stationers Armes under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange 1684. The Explayning of the Title I Call that Essential Christianity in which the Heart is truely turned from sin to God In which state there be various degrees Some are but as smoking Flax where no flame of righteousness as yet appears yet have they a love to Righteousness and to God these our Lord will not quench Others are as bruised Reeds wounded and bruised and bowed down under their transgression and therefore are poor in Spirit mourning under the body of Sin which they are made sensible of and hungring and thirsting after Righteousness which their Hearts long after these holding on shall be filled Some are not farr from the Kingdom of God but near it Others are in the Kingdom which consists i● Righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit ●r Holy Ghost who have received the Spirit of Adoption and are in the Son-●hip walking in fellowship with the Father and the Son and in all these ●tates there be various degrees also Now I call that essential in which ●hese have their life to distinguish from that which is outward and circumstantial and may be taken up b● those that love wickedness and hav● a Spirit of enmity in them against tru● holines For there is no Form of Godliness 〈◊〉 of Religion but a wicked man and lover of unrighteousness may take it u● and that as well now as under the m●nistration of the Law or as in t● Apostles dayes when some had a for● of Godliness and yet denyed the Pow●● thereof But take notice that I doe not c●● these things contained in this Book E●sential in opposition to all things th● are outward or circumstantial but distinction from those things that wicked man may take upon him whi●● things nevertheless may in due place● observed by the truly righteous The 〈◊〉 of the Title needs no explication N● what is here offered is but in part we know but in part and Prop●cy but in part and he in whom 〈◊〉 fullness dwells gives out of his full● as it pleaseth him to whom be 〈◊〉 Glory of all his gifts A SYNOPSIS Or short view of ESSENTIAL CHRISTIANITY c. 1. GOD so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but should have eternal life For God sent not his Son into the World to condemn the World but that the World through him might be saved Joh. 3.16 17. 2. The Son of God Christ Jesus our Lord so loved the World also that he gave up himself a Sacrifice for our Sinnes according to the good will of God thereby to make attonement for us and to reconcile us to God He bare our Sins in his own body on the Tree 1 Pet. 2.24 Thus the love of God is manifested and the love of the Son of God Christ Jesus our Lord. 3. He whose understanding an Heart is rightly opened to believe this love of God in Christ he receives it He receives th● joyfull tydings or Gospel H● receives the Testimony of Chris● and sets to his Seal that God 〈◊〉 true yea he receives Christ himself and with him power to b●come a Son of God Joh. 1 1● He shall receive remission of Si● Act. 10.43 He shall be made pa●taker of the Holy Spirit Ro. 8. ● Gal. 3.2 And such a faith as th● is the right Evangelical faith 4. This true Faith in Christ Jesus or Evangelical faith wherein the things are received hath also the Fruits and concomitants atte●ding it 1. It brings Peace and consolatio● or rejoycing 2. It works by love 3. It purifyes the Heart turni●● it from unrighteousness and teache● to deny ungodliness and Worldly lusts and to live righteously and soberly and Godly in this present World 4. It excludes boasting and exaltation of our selves 5. It drawes the Heart after Christ after Sanctification and after Heavenly treasures and fellowship with God 6. It is accompanyed with an Unction from the Holy one which inlightens the understanding and inclines the Heart to good and gives a sense or feeling of the will of God and being kept to it leadeth into all truth and is a continual teacher And this is the new Covenant not written in Tables of Stone as the first was but in the Fleshly Tables of the heart 2 Cor. 3.3 7. This true Gospel faith begets Hope that is it raises the heart into an expectation of good things to come and so bears up the head under all the afflictions and tribulations which it meets with all in this life For if in this life only we had hope we were of all men most miserable And so it hath a secret dependency upon the righteous judgment of God at the last day when he shall bring everything to light and render to every one according 〈◊〉 their deeds done in the body This short view of Christianity is comprehended under these 4 heads 1. The Love of God to man 2. The Love of Christ Jesus ou● Lord the First-borne of every Creature and the expresse image of the invisible God 3. The Gospel Faith which recei es Love of God in Christ Jesu● our Lord. 4. The Fruits of this faith whereby it is known and distinguished from all false faiths Of all which a little more at large by way of Explication as they shall be opened to mee Explication 1. GOD so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Joh. 3.16 For God sent him not into the World to condemn the World but that the World through him might be saved ver 17. Here 's the Fountaine or rather Ocean from whence all good doth come even from the Love of God or from God who is love yea an unfathomable Ocean of love Therefore the beloved Disciple who leaned on the bosom of our Lord describes him thus God is Love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him 1 Joh. 4.16 And this love is an extensive love reaching to all therefore saith he God so loved the World he saith not God so loved this or that Nation or this or that sort

may be refreshing helps to those who in sincerity of Heart and simplicity of conscience do walk therein There is a Baptism indeed and a Supper which are essential to the Kingdom of Christ but those are couched under other things before spoken yet for more plainess I shall here expresse them more particularly Peter tells us of a Baptism that saves us and that must needs be essential 1 Pet. 3.21 The like Figure whereunto even Baptism doth also now save us not the putting away of the filth of the Flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This indeed is essential namely the answer of a good conscience towards God which is a Baptism indeed and which is a Fruit of righteousness For they that by an ungodly and wicked life make Shipwrack of Faith they thereby beget in themselves an evil and accusing conscience although they be outwardly Baptized and so it s not that that saves but the answer of a good conscience by the resurrection of Jesus Christ So there is a Supper also which is essential to the Kingdom of Christ which our Lord himself speaks of Rev. 3.20 Behold I stand a● the Door and knock if any man hear my voyce and open the Door I will come in to him and sup with him and he with me This is a Supper that is essential Here 's joy and consolation in this Supper and sweet communion with the Lord. This was writ to a Church who were Baptized with outward Baptism and had the outward Supper and other Ordinances as we may well presume they had as well as other Churches and especially because they thought themselves rich in such things and increased with goods having need of nothing which blinded their Eyes so that they knew not that they were wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked And so the rest of the Churches of Asia they were all in Church fellowship enjoying the outward Ordinances but that was not enough For they were gathered in thither as into a nursery or Garden to the end they should grow up in grace and bring forth good Fruit unto God So there is a prayer that is essential and hath communion with God viz. When in the Spirit we worship God and when the Spirit maketh intercession in us according to the will of God There is also Preaching or a holding forth of Truth which is essential when the Lord requires it whether it be by a righteous life or by bearing Testimony to the Truth But these things I leave out which the Worldly Spirit may cloath it self with all and under that Cloak live wickedly yea and hate the life and power of Christianity as may be done under a verbal profession of the new Covenant as well as under the Old when the false Prophets and such as adhered to them persecuted the true Prophets And yet though they were Persecutors of the true they brought Oblatious to God and burnt incense to him and kept solemn meetings and fasts and came as a People that delighted to draw near unto the Lord and made many Prayers to him and their Hearts in all this far from him and so may it be now and therefore such things I omit and point at such things as wherein a Soul drawes near to God and is approved of God and in which he comes to some enjoyment of Spiritual blessings and by degrees comes into possession of the Kingdom of God in Christ Jesus The things wherein a man walks with God and follows the Lamb whether into external observances or out of them those I would here comprehend For there may be a following of him out of some things that the evil Spirit may take up as well as into them The Scripture leaves us not without examples and ground hereof The Br●●en Serpent set up by Gods own institution and which was an eminent Type of Christ yet after the use of it was over and the People ma●e an Idol of it and so went a whoring after the shaddow and forgot the substance and their Hearts were removed far from the Lord that good King Hezechiah who walk't before the Lord with a perfect Heart he caused it to be broken to pieces and put an end to it 2 King 18.4 The Lord did also command circumcision very stricktly so that the Seed of Abraham must needs be circumcised and this called an Ordinance for ever Yet when the fulness of time was come that the substance of all the shaddowes took place in their stead then sayes one Apostle behold I say unto you that if ye be circumcised Christ shall profite you nothing Gal. 5.2 This was a hard lesson to some and especially to such who were zealous of Gods ordinances yea even to many who believed in Christ Now the Scripture tells us of a falling away from God unto all wickedness and of retaining a form of Godliness still to cover all that and of a mystery of iniquity to be revealed and yet he that shall heed that mystery shall have his seat in the Temple of God that is were Gods Ordinances have their place by right but iniquity working under this profession of these things makes that a mystery which otherwise is open-fast wickedness only it hides it self under a profession and destructive zeal against neglecters of its form Now in this case I say there may be a following of the Lamb even out of those observances of his which once were commanded But I do not urge this except he lead And if he lead and go before them then shall his followers have peace and a secret witness in themselves although they meet with opposition from others Which they are likely to doe in following the Lamb for its him that the evil Spirit persecutes by his Servants in whom he rules And this is a great Testimony that its one great ordinance of Christ for his People to come out of false and corrupted worships after the mystery of iniquity hath abused them because the persecution lyes most thereupon if not altogether The Papists they persecute because People relinquish their form the Episcopal the Presbyterian c. they all do the like Though a man be just and upright in his conversation yet if he draw from their form they hate they revile they persecute at least with the Tongue And why is this But because they follow the Lamb who saith in their Spirits Come out of her my People I'ts he that goes before his true followers and leads them out gently and therefore saith come out And this comming out I say is a great ordinance of Christ in the discovery and dissolution of all corrupted worships And the followers of Christ herein are dignifyed with this Honour that it s said of them these are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes But note they are such as truely follow the Lamb in whose mouth is found no guile If they shall turn from corrupted worships and