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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54917	Nil novi This years fruit, from the last years root. The souldiers posture, to the right, to the left, faces about, as yee were. The royall maxime, no bishop, no king. The first-fruits of new prelats, amounting to as much as the tythes of old bishops. All summed up in an impartial relation of the partial proceedings, and uprighteous rumors raised against Henry Pinnel, concerning his endeavouring to get a parsonage. Occasioning a sudden glance upon the true resurrection, present perfection, and perfect obedience. Written in a letter to a friend.	Pinnell, Henry.	1654 (1654)	Wing P2278A; ESTC R221490	41,685	60

who more declaimed against it Phil. 3.4 5 6 7 8. Sol. Qui semel in scopulos vento contortus undâ Nauta scit in caut is monstrare pericula nautis He that hath suffered wracke by winde and tyde Is the unskilful Mariners best guide You come now to the maxima gravamina and tell me plainly where the shoo pincheth what are the true reasons why I could not be suffered to enjoy the peoples choice for shy you it is reported commonly reported That I am ill-affected to the present government Ob. 1. and speak lightly of the Protector He speaketh against Caesar Sol. was on old forg'd charge against Christ John 19. the most obedient subject that ever was but allegations without probation go for nothing but the foam of malice I have heard of a great Rabbie a man famous in Civil as well as Ecclesiastical respects President of a Colledge Mr. T. G. and Pastor of a Church of forward compliance enough to the late alterations that he should say How the Protector got up he knew not but now he is up he must hold it as well as he can who will impeach him for that Whether his Highness took or accepted of the Government contrary or according unto the expectation and approbation of the single honest plain-hearted Christians is not for me to dispute or determine that which concerns me and every one else now he is up is to pray that we may live and lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty Now therefore the good Lord grant 1 Tim. 2.2 that he may be delivered and kept from the ambition pride and deceit of his own heart that he may have the spirit of good and righteous government enlarged in him that we may have equity and justice administred to us hence forward that he may be to the punishment of evil doers and to the praise of them that do well that he may discern and dispel all hypocritical and fawning parasites and that the Commonwealth under him may flourish in all obedience and love to God and one another Amen Amen You are too Seraphical and Allegorical in your preaching you exceed the capacity of plain people Obj. 2. the vulgar cannot reach you nay notwithstanding your Seraphical spirit hath flown above and against Parsonages yet now you hunt after one c. This childe fathers it self the falshood is proportionable to the patrons and fomenters of it Sol. 1. Princes and Prelates must speak like themselves a little lye will not fill a great mans mouth Let those Dons and Doctors make it appear that I hunted after a Parsonage If they speak Ironically Sol. 2. and jeer me when they say I am too Seraphical then the ball rebounds into their own faces and the arrow falls on their own pate For If by Seraphical they mean a high flying fancy then how super-Seraphical must they needs be who judge me Rectum est index sui obliqui They have the Cap already and long for the Mitre If my fancy be beyond the Moon as I would have it be how far beyond the Moon must theirs flye to take the altitude of mine A Dwarfe cannot pull off a Gyants cap. He that undertakes to top anothers light must be taller in his own opinion thus while he judgeth another he exposeth himself to censure for the same thing But remember To put out others light be not too bold Quarles The Temple-snuffers were of purest gold 2. If by Seraphical they mean an empty notion and high flying fancy onely without solid substance and practical reality yet so the Epithet sticks fast to them For even they themselves among black-coates and gray-coats who preach and prate against me who seem or at least would seem to beat down empty notions and build up pure practice even these whom I can name can covet and clutch more with one haud then I can or dare hold with both But if by Seraphical they mean honestly properly and plainly Sol. 3. then I rencunce not the attributes but could wish rather that I did better deserve it That you may know my minde I crave your patience a little It is a common received opinion that there are four orders or ranks of Angels of which some make this difference and distinctions 1. There are Angels in the vulgar acception which they picture in the shape of a man with wings and their feet touching the earth 2. Archangels without feet cut off in the midst ●s ●●●ther from the earth 3. Cherubims with faces and wings ●●●out bodies as more remote from corporeal and terrene matter and form 4. Seraphims without any humane shape or figure represented in a yellowish colour and fiery flame as most abstract transcendent and separated from all humane idea's and earthly notions I consent to the conceit and acknowledge the mystery and Ministery of our Lord Jesus Christ in all who was 1. Made flesh and dwelt among us Joh. 1.14 who is to be seen and felt and handled by us 1 Joh. 1.1 2 3. who took part with us in flesh and blood Heb. 2.14 his feet toucht our earth who walked in our nature who first descended into the lower parts of the earth before he ascended into the hights of heaven Ephes 4.9 10. Joh. 3.13 2. Afterward he appears like Michael the Archangel fighting our battels making war in heaven with the Dragon and his Angels Rev. 12.7 to shew that as we wrestle not with flesh and blood but spiritual wickedness in heavenly places Eph. 6.12 so the weapons of our warfare should not be carnal 2 Cor. 10. our feet should not stand on the ground we should have no confidence in the flesh Phil. 3.3 we should not trust in the worldly Sanctuary nor lean on the false and fleshly righteousness of the Law but that we should fight the good fight of Faith 2 Tim. 4.7 by which we get the victory 1 Joh. 5.4 5. that the foot of pride should be cut off Psal 36.11 Mat. 18.8 that the pride of our works and walkings might be hid from us Job 33.17 3. Then he is seen as a Cherubim without the gross hue of legal services and bodily exercise which profit little 1 Tim. 4.8 but with an head onely and wings to shew how swift and quick he is of understanding to know and do his fathers will Isa 11.3 Psal 40.7 8. to shew also how that all the fore-going inferior or lower dispensations of his in the body should fly up and we with them resting in him as being his body who is our head Col. 1.18 the head of principalities and powers Col. 2.10 the head over all things to the Church Eph. 1.22 In this our head the seat of understanding are hid all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge Col. 2.3 and our life with it Col. 3.3 to shew that although we are the Body of Christ we should not through self-denyal be seen in any thing Gal.

2.20 1 Cor. 15.10 or ascribe any thing to our selves as they Mat. 25.44 Act. 3.12 13.16 As Christ our Lord Phil. 2.7 submitted to an exinanimation of himself to come down to us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 16.24 25. so should we suffer an annihilation of our selves to go up to him lose our lives to save them Our lives are safer out of sight in Christ and neerer unto heaven then in never so great appearance in us or a name that we are alive While we behold the face of our Cherub we vanish out of our own sight 2 Cor. 3.18 As our head Christ had wings to flye up unto his head which is God Joh. 17.1.5 so have we wings to fly up to our head Rev. 12.14 Isa 40.31 we have the creation and the Scriptures in them Law and Gospel Letter and Spirit History for the rational and Mystery for the spiritual man which as the Armes and wings of the body are placed in contraposition though they be of opposite dispensation yet in service use and end they are concentrick and meet in one in Angels and Cherubims in body and head in Christ and the Saints The Cherubims were set one directly against the other each looking on other Exod. 25.19 20 37.8 9. and both upon the mercy-seat the Law and Gospel those two great configurations of Heaven have a mutual aspect both centring in Christ their body head substance and truth Joh. 1.17 Col. 2.17 The Gospel is a mystery hid from us under veiles and coverings of figures and shadows in the former ages of our fleshly life Col. 1.26 while we are under tutors and governors Gal. 4.1 2. And then the spirit of prophesie in the Saints is enquiring and searching diligently after the time of Grace promised 1 Pet. 1.10 11 12. and the Angels of the first tabernacle who walked in the worldly Sanctuary whose feet touched the earthly things Joh. 3.13 they desired to pry into this mystery but when Christ is revealed in us Gal. 1.16 as the hope of glory Col. 1.27 then are the Law and Prophets fulfilled and all promises performed 2 Cor. 1.20 The Jew bewailes her little sister Cant. 8.8 the Gentiles condole her divorced the Jew groans after the Gentiles conversion the Gentile longs for the Jews recovery and return the Jew grieves to see the Gentile lie in heathenisme and Atheism as without God in the world the Gentile would be glad to see the Jew cast off their whorish habit and attire of an harlot to forsake the traditions of men and ceremonies of Moses and imbrace the faith of the Gospel the Law longs for the liberty of the Gospel Rom. 8.19 c. the Gospel mourns for want of obedience to the Law the Law desires the manifestation of the sons of God the Gospel requires the adoption to be obedient to the Law Relations cannot be void of mutual affections To conclude Christ appears as a Cherub that is as a master over-mastering over-coming and over-ruling all principality and power sin curse and death Col. 2.14 15. As an Angel or Ministering spirit he walked with us on his own feet and washed ours Joh. 13.5.10 15.3 then like an Archangel he is cut off Isa 53.8 from the natural life and walking with men in the flesh lifted up a little higher from the earth upon the cross where like Michael he fought with and overcame the Dragon and his Angels Heb. 2.14 15. then he flyes upward in his resurrection and ascension and like the Cherubims spreads both his wings of divinity and humanity Law and Gospel Letter and Spirit both united in him over the Mercy-seat Rom. 8.1 that there might be no more condemnation to us but that we should have boldness at the throne of grace and finde help in time of our need Heb. 4.16 because our Cherub our Christ appears in the presence of God for us Heb. 9.24 this our Angel doth alwayes behold the face of our Father in heaven Mat. 18.10 whose face is the mercy-seat Psal 4.6 17.15 John 14.8 for like his name Exod. 34.6.7 it is merciful gracious pardoning c. Forasmuch then as all things work together for our good and that by the Creation Law Gospel Letter Spirit c. God intendeth to draw us nearer to himself let us not neglect his great Salvation God gave thy soul brave wings Mr. G. H. P●●●●hant put not those feathers Into a Bed to sleep out all ill weathers 4. Lastly Christ is as a Seraph a fiery flame without any imaginary fashion or forged Idea of the shadow and finite reason and thought of man Though in the dayes of his flesh and after his resurrection he appeared in many forms yet he left all and forsook them at his ascension to the Father by his reduction and resolution into the Godhead disappearing and deserting all visibilities when he delivered up the Kingdome to the Father that God might be all in all Now all Ministrations Ordinances Christ himself our life 1 Cor. 15.24.28 the word of truth by which we were begotten all return into God this is the perfect state of Christ and in this state we are perfected with him Now are we dead indeed unto all that is self and alive onely in and unto God Col. 3.3 this is pure and perfect salvation salvation by fire 1 Cor. 3.15 Heb. 12.28 29. of which none but hypocrites and carnal Gospellers are afraid Isa 33.14 2 Thes 1.8 In this state Christ our Saviour is an everlasting Father Isa 9.6 Fire is the generating and productive principle of all things without fire no prolifical vertue fire also is the consuming and destructive power of all things so Christ is Alpha and Omega the first and the last the beginning and end of all things he will never rest till he burn devour all intermediates Psal 90.2 From everlasting to everlasting he is God everlasting à parte ante a parte post whatsoever is interposed between these two everlastings is but temporal and must pass away meats for the belly and the belly for meat but God will destroy both it and them Compare Gal. 4.3 2 Pet. 3 10. in Greek God will not spare the work of his own hands even the heavens shall wax old and the firmament melt away Those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those Elements and rudiments of the Law by which we were disciplined and taught in our non-age shall be dissolved by the conflagration of the Seraphical or fiery dispensation Gal. 3.19 We read that the Law was ordained by Angels 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I had rather read it Disposed by Angels as it is Acts 7.53 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the disposition of Angels To ordaine implies a magisterial supremacy and Legislative authority which pertaineth onely to Christ in matters of the Church but to dispose of what is ordained is the office of a Steward or Minister appointed thereunto thus the Angels of the lower