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A45517	The key of sacred scripture, and, leading to it first, an answer to some objections given to the author, by a person of great learning and piety : wherein many mistakes, by which most professors wound themselves, and strengthen the hands of the churche's adversaries, are clearly discovered, and the more invincible weapons of truth inviolable (tending effectually to refel errors, and reform manners) are tendred to them / by Tho. Harby.	Harby, Thomas.	1679 (1679)	Wing H683; ESTC R20417	31,658	56

square Righteousness which shall render and denominate these future 144000 to be that Mystery of God finished and the First-fruits redeemed from the Earth chap. 14.3 4. We shall therefore search the Apostles Times to see if we can find there the principal end of the Scripture and that Righteousness aforesaid for they might have some glimmerings of it though they did not perhaps attain to the true and clear knowledg of it And First But we look for new Heavens and a new Earth according to his Promise wherein dwelleth Righteousness 2 Pet. 3.13 If Peter knew what those new Heavens and that new Earth were and what that Righteousness in them was to be why did he not preach both to the Primitive Churches why did he look for them and it to come in future according to his Promise if that Promise of God was at that time or had been before performed Therefore this Righteousness of Gospel-Promise was not rightly understood but much sealed and hid from the Primitive Saints and Apostles themselves Secondly Christ taught his Disciples and teacheth us to pray saying Thy Kingdom come thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven But the Will of God so done on Earth is the Practice of that future quadrate Righteousness of Gospel-Promise which only or principally is according to the Will of God and well-pleasing to him for all other Righteousness cannot but be faulty before the Throne of God Rev. 14.5 Not but that there will be Sins in Saints then but Sins in subjection or slain Sins as the Ark and Dagon with his Head and Hands cut off were in one Temple Thy Will be done in Earth c. This is a prophetick Prayer which hath not been answered that I find in any Ages nor shall be until the Seals of this Book be opened for until then the Will of God cannot be done in Earth as it is in Heaven because Man's Direction so to do it though not with like degrees of Perfection can be found by no other means Christ therefore had not no doubt taught his Disciples and us to pray saying Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven if it was then actually so done on Earth by any but himself only at that present time or otherwise than by a prophetick Adumbration or Figure The supreme end therefore of the whole Scripture in order to God's Glory or that Righteousness which shall denominate the Mystery of God finished and be the Means of Mens principal Concerns and Safeties was much sealed or did not clearly appear to the Apostles themselves And therefore John wept much Rev. 5.4 And why did John weep much Because he had much cause to weep the Book was sealed in respect to its supreme end and that was cause sufficient to him of much weeping Nothing can be more lamentable than the sealing of that Book nor more blessed and full of joy than that opened For the sealing of it opens the Flood-gates of all Evils Miseries and Mischiefs Hoc solum omnigeni fons origo mali It is the cause of an Inundation of all Evils to Princes and to their People They complain of Plots and dreadful Designs to subvert their Estates Lives and Religion it self as if the World were again and so it is indeed filled with Violence Therefore they labour hard and so they do well to prevent every Man his own utter Ruine But it is not much unlike the Egyptians striving against the Stream of the involving Waters to very little purpose Hydra's adverse Heads spring up faster than they can be cut off Why then do they not seek to open the Seals of this Book and their Work is done The Wolf the Lamb and the Lion agreed well enough in one Ark and shall agree this Book being opened to better purpose Isa 65.25 Saul among the Prophets prophesied with them So Papists Protestants Sects and Turks if that Work be once done will agree to say and do the same things Enmity and Hostility shall cease and the destroying Angel shall stay his hand as he did when he was seen in Arannah's Threshing-Floor 2 Sam. 24.17 25. Therefore Lastly The whole Creation saith the Apostle groaneth and travaileth in pain and not only they but our selves also which have the First fruits c. Rom. 8.22 23. And what moved even the Apostles themselves and with them the whole Creation so to groan and travail in pain It was saith the Text for the manifestation of the Sons of God vers 19. And what is that I answer It is or rather shall be the Name of God written in their Fore-heads Rev. 14.1 For what more manifests a thing than the Forehead and what so much manifests the Sons of God as the Name of God written in their Foreheads And what is that Name It 's that Power of Godliness or that Practice of Right which shall be the supreme end of the whole Scripture in order to God's Glory and in respect to which principally it hath been long sealed All that work not at least to that end aforesaid are like Clocks that go not or go wrong Wherefore seeing that promised Righteousness in Practice which shall be the Will of God done on Earth though not with equal degrees of perfection as it is in Heaven shall be in order to God's Glory the supreme end of the whole Scripture and the most effectual means to Men of their entire Safeties and highest Concerns we shall with some diligence examine what those Works or that Practice of Right aforesaid in respect to which principally the Book is sealed are And first we must distinguish Evil Works are either visibly evil or But seeming good Good Works are subordinate or Supreme And firstly Works visibly evil are the Works of the Flesh Gal. 5.19 Adultery Fornication Uncleanness Idolatry Witchcraft Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strofe Seditions Heresies Envyings Murthers Drunkenness Revellings and such like Such like are those Multitudes of Oaths which make the Land mourn and the Cause of them Atheism Witchcraft is mentioned among these Works of the Flesh which are manifest but I never read or heard of any Witch that durst or did swear or say God damn me This Age is grown hardy in unheard-of Wickedness Envy Hatred Variance are in the same List Schism therefore must be of the same Radix Sloth and Inadvertency are the Root and Foundation of all manifest evil Works and of those that are most mysterious The Doers of those more manifest evil Works are High-way-Hearers or the High-way ground Inadvertists Atheists that give no growth to the Seed of Grace But Secondly Works but seeming good are much more deceitful and difficult to be discerned from subordinate good Works They soon grow and soon cease from growing Hearing Reading Praying ineffectual Alms and pieces or half Performances of Right are seeming good Works And subordinate good Works are the same only these persevere when the other desist The stony and thorny Grounds are lively delineations of the Doers of seeming good Works The Apostle said to the foolish Galatians Ye ran well who hindred you chap. 5.7 So the Doers of seeming good Works seem to run well or rather better at first than they that perform subordinate good Works but before they run far they are hindred and having no depth of knowledg cannot persist in pressing forward or if their Knowledg be competent much Business and worldly Cares choak their good Works and makes them be but dead Works Therefore subordinate good Works seem to fall short at first of those that are but seeming good they are not so splendid nor promise so much when they are first held forth but they persevere when the other perish 〈…〉 * Assemb Annot. * Symp. 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c. That Lamb upon Mount Sion shall be this Antitype Mystery of God whom he declared to his Servants the Prophets And who shall that Lamb or so declared Mystery of God be I answer That Lamb shall be the Secular and Spiritual Representative of Christ Mystical the Gospel-Church revived and returned out of the Wilderness Chap. 11.9 11. Chap. 12.6 14. Ezek. 37.24 25. For the first Adam was the Mystery of God in a Figure who when God had formed him and breathed into him the breath of Life became a Prophetick Adumbration of the second Adam Christ Incarnate dead and risen from Death he was the Root of that first and of this Antitype-Mystery of God in the Text The first had and this shall have their being and denominations from him The first Man or Mystery of God was a Prophet The second Man was the Patriarch of all Prophets and both prophetically foretold the first by his Sleep the second by his Death and Resurrection this Antitype-Mystery of God who also lay dead and shall be revived by the breath of Life from God entering into him Chap. 11.9 11. Ezek. 37.14 And this Prefigured Mystery of God the chief end of Christ's coming and dying in order to God's Glory is the Mystery of God in the Text whom God declared to his Servants the Prophets and who is the principal subject of this sealed Book till he be finished and after shall be when the same Book shall be opened for evermore But Secondly If this Book be as the Text fully imports the Book of what God declared to his Servants the Prophets then it might seem to be the whole Scripture which also some of the best Expositors not rightly distinguishing say in effect as I noted before For the whole Scripture was given of God to his Servants the Prophets by Inspiration c. 2 Tim. 3.16 17. All the Scripture therefore might seem to be this sealed Book if it be the Book of What God declared to his Servants the Prophets which a Man may be the more apt to believe because Men Saints and Sects so live and so know and do as if there were no Scripture or as if all the Scripture were indeed sealed But in order to the opening of the Seals of this Book we must distinguish For Some Scriptures are not sealed in some respects and in others sealed Some are more some less sealed And In some respect the whole Scripture may be said to be sealed And first Some Scripture is not sealed in some respects and in other sealed For the Historical part of Scripture as Historical is not sealed But much of that that is Historical is also Prophetical And so it is or may be sealed For example The History of the Creation as it is Historical is not sealed But that History is also a Prophecy and holds forth the lost and supreme end of the Creation or the Antitype thereof which the Apostle calls a new Heaven and a new Earth 2 Pet. 3.13 A Man that is not unlearn'd may reade that God in the Beginning created Heaven and Earth and the things therein The History of them as it is Historical is not sealed But that History as also Prophetical points forth that promised new Heaven and new Earth and so it is or hath been sealed Isa 65.17 Chap. 66.72 Pet. 3.13 Rev. 21.1 5. So the History of the fall of the first Old World as it is an History is not sealed But that History is also a Prophecy and that World prefigured the fall of this present Old World The History holds forth the Causes of the fall of the first World and as that History is also a Prophecy so it foretells the same Sins in effect should be the Causes of the fall of this second Old World The Causes of the fall of the first were these in the History The wickedness of Man was great in the Earth and every imagination of the thoughts of his Heart was only evil continually All Flesh had corrupted his way and the Earth was filled with violence so that God repented that he had made Man and it grieved him at the Heart Mutato nomine tantum Change but that History as Christ himself doth into a Prophecy and the same Sins are the Causes but more redundant and dreadful in the Antitype of the fall of this present evil Old World As the days of Noah were so likewise shall the coming of the Son of Man be Matth. 24.37 Out Saviour adds that they knew nothing till the Flood came vers 39. Inadvertency was the Universal Flood-gate of all wickedness to that Old World and is to this That minded nothing and therefore knew nothing and this as much The History of the first we see is not sealed But as it is a Prophecy of this second it seems altogether sealed insomuch that Sects Saints and Professors rather say We are Rich and increased with Goods and have need of nothing than believe that the Sins of the Old World are devolved with advantage upon themselves The History of Type-primitive Israels flying from the Famine into the Wilderness and into her place there prepared of God literal Egypt where she was fed and nourished is not sealed Gen. 46.1 But the flight or the Gospel Church-Primitive from the face of the Serpent into the Spiritual Wilderness and into her place there prepared of G●d Spiritual Egypt the Papacy with her Sects where she was fed and nourished for 1260 years is prophetically held forth in the foresaid History And this Prophecy in that History is or hath been long sealed Rev. 12.6 14. Chap. 11.8 We find the same Prophecy further cleared in another History Exod. Chap. 14. Chap. 15. where the Jewish Church-Primitive fled from the face of Pharaoh and his Host through the Sea into the Wilderness where she was fed and nourished forty Years Pharaoh and his Host fell in the Sea and Moses and Israel sang a Song of Thankfulness to God Exod. 15. The History is not sealed but it shadowed forth prophetically the Gospel Church-Primitive when she fled from the face of Serpent into the Spiritual Wilderness for 1260 Years And then or soon after she having gotten the victory over the Beast and being returned out of the Wilderness shall also sing a Song of Thankfulness and Deliverance the Song of Moses and of the Lamb saith the Text Rev. 12.6 14. Chap. 13.18 Chap. 14.3 Chap. 15.3 That History is not sealed but this Prophecy therein is or at least hath been long sealed The History of the seven years Famine in Egypt and in all Nations denoted by seven lean Beasts is sufficiently legible but those seven Beasts held forth prophetically the seven Heads of the secular Beast-Papal Chap. 13.1 And those seven Years of Famine prefigured the superlative scarcity of Faith and Good Manners in all Nations for above 1260 Years whiles those seven Heads have preheminence For as Pharaoh's Dream was doubled to shew the certainty of it so seven Years