may be seen in the next Scripture cited in the Margin which is a part of this same Prophesie For observe here the Jews shall then be restored when this will be performed Their Foes will be terrified upon the report of the Jews repair home which is not fully verified The Nations will do homage to the Jews upon their Conversion whereas hitherto they have been dispersed among and subdued by the Nations are objects either of scorn or pitty to all Mankind where ever they are a great overthrow will be given to their open Enemies which is yet to come The converted Jews will turn to Jehovah Christ and will constantly and continuedly serve him according to Gospel Institution particularly by observing the Seventh-day Sabbath in his Sabbath which expression is used elsewhere referring to the Seventh-day Sabbath When these things shall come to pass the LORD will make crooked things to be streightness before his people when that Law of his to which the Isles do expect shall be magnified and made honourable as the Giver of it also will be So great and so glorious things being to come so long after Isaiah's Prophesyings Such as whereof all the World could not have foretold these are confirmed and verified by the Testimony of the Father in his Son by his Spirit in his Word As for what is Prophesied of by Ezekiel concerning the new Temple or Church state where especial direction is given for the service of the Sabbath-day this doth confirm and establish the Seventh-day Sabbath to continue under New Testament times For it speaks of such a Day of Sabbath in the same Week as has six working Days going before it which is expresly according to the same Law proclaimed Mount Sinai as one of the ten Words That which is alledged out of Peter was a Prophesie long after Christ's Resurrection and Ascension a little before Peter's death and not long before the destruction of the Temple and of the Jews which had a quite contrary Face and Nature from the glorious Renovation foretold Those new Heavens and new Earth that were prophesied were at that time of Peter's writing the Epistle in the Promise unfulfilled such as were yet expected and look'd out after and the whole Discourse doth manifest that it was not then accomplished That day of the LORD the same LORDLY Day spoken of in the Revelvtion the great providential Day of his LORDLY Appearance was not then come it Peter's time The Heavens were not then passed away with a noise they were not then perished in flames by fire the Elements were not then burnt and loosed or dissolved and melted the Earth and the works that were therein were not then burnt up The Heavens which are now saith he speaking of those that were in his Day and Time and the Earth are by the same Word laid up as a Treasure and are kept unto fire against the day of Judgment and of the Destruction of ungodly men or of corrupt Worshippers These things saith he shall perish They had not then perished The day of the LORD shall come It was not then come but they were to look for and to hasten unto the coming of it We according to his promise expect new Heavens and a new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness We look for these things They were as yet but in the Promise They were under the Expectation of Believers They looked for them but they did not then see and enjoy them actually in their real Coming for they were not as yet come Thus also that Prophety by John in the Revelation when he had a Visional sight of a new Heaven and a new Earth upon the passing away of the first Heaven and the first Earth and when he saw the Holy City and the New Jerusalem and when a great Voice out of Heaven had told him that God would wipe off all tears from the eyes of his Covenant-people and that Death should be no more neither mourning nor crying nor any more trouble for the former things should pass away He that sat upon the Throne said Behold I make all things new Write for these things are true and faithful Is it not evident here that this Prophetie was many years after the Day of Christ's Resurrection And must not the Fulfilling be after the Prophetie Is there not enough in this very place to confute the Objector's Arguing Is the first Heaven and the first Earth yet passed away When ever was this fulfilled Is the new Heaven and the new Earth yet come Is the Holy City the New Jerusalem as yet come down from God out of Heaven Are there not tears found in the eyes of the LORD'S people to be wiped away Is there not death still Are these former things yet passed away Is not the LORD He who then foretold that he would make all things new John saw in a Vision and heard in a voice they would be so made but they were not actually so excellent on earth in John's Day and Time For there will be this new face of things in the Churches of Christ on earth This New Holy City Jerusalem is not said to go up to God into Heaven but it doth come down from God out of Heaven God will renew his Covenant with his people and he will Tabernacle with them God will put away Humane Ordinances Inventions Impositions and Traditions to set up his own Institutions all the Laws and Orders of his New House in their Purity and Power The Nations shall receive Light from this New Church so shiningly enlightned so clearly taught of him Church-Discipline shall be revived set up and exercised Distempers Diseases and Ulcers of Spirit of Soul and Body shall be healed and cured and removed by the Medicinal leaves of the Tree of Life All which do belong to a Church-State here on earth If other passages in this Book of the Revelation be collated it will appear that many things foretold to go before this are not yet fulfilled For there must be another manner of Conversion of the Tribes yet of all the Tribes which do include the Ten of Israel as well as the Two of Judah and Benjamin The twelve thousands of the several Tribes The New Church was to be erected after that the See of the Beast was overthrown The Returning Jews are called the Kings of the East There will be a laying dry the Waters of Euphrates as those of the Red Sea were of Old for Jehova's Redeemed ones to pass thorow The Turkish oppressing Tyrant will yet further destroy many of the Jews which grand Enemy shall at length be quite destroyed utterly ruined and his Power shall be broken to pieces The very place of this Conflicting Battel is particularly mentioned where his Overthrow shall be And there will yet be a glorious Christian Church of returning believing Jews erected
so a rule unto us under the New And then let me be discharged from this Scholastick War Let this be one premise which is several times in short expressions here and there in this Treatise That it is a choice priviledge and a special liberty which Believers do enjoy under the New Testament Administration of Grace Christ profiteth them nothing by his coming in the Flesh born of the Virgin Mary to accomplish and to perfect the Types of old which did so set out his thus coming who keep themselves still under the former dispensation of Types Shadows and Figures We thankfully acknowledge to the Honour of our LORD that gracious administration especially now towards the latter-day glory of it that we are brought under which if compared with the former under the Old Testament as to the different manner of dispensing For otherwise we are to discover in it's place that the Christian Religion is one and the same for Doctrines Duties Gifts Graces Priviledges under both has excelling advantages such as these for the measures and for the degrees of them It has more lively efficaciousness more quick sensible Fellowship It has more clear convincing Light and more abounding spreading knowledge And blessed be Jehovah who is in this providential day clearing up and reviving some too long neglected Truths and Duties amongst some others this about the weekly Seventh day Sabbath It has more manifested Grace It has a more spiritual way of Worship It has a more excelling Holiness refined purity and shining Glory having through the Spirit who is the LORD more power to transform into this those who with unveiled Face do look into this Glass It has more enlarged liberty of heart in the way and service of the LORD It has more of self evidencingly revealed mysteries It has more Royal privileges set out therefore by a Kingdom of God and of Heaven And the things of it are called Heavenly things This is meant of a Church State here on Earth For above in the Heavenly glory there are no unfruitful ones no Tares no Scandals no Doers of Iniquity no bad Fish no foolish ones This New Testament Church State has the name of a Kingdom of Heaven as it doth much resemble that glorious Kingdom which is above in Heaven in its way of Government In its order of subjection in its sights of Faith in its enjoyments of Communion in its service of Delight and in its conformity of Holiness Here these are in growingness of measure There they are in fulness of Perfection This new Church State has much brought down from Heaven to it Such as are gracious visits from Jehovah-Aelohim in Father Son and Holy Spirit Angelical Ministry like-affectionedness of the perfectly sanctified spirits of just Men and Heavenly Messengers with the Everlasting Gospel This new Church State is drawn up to be much in the Spirit in Heaven above by joynt unions By mutual Fellowships and it doth believe and expect a new Heaven and a new Earth and a new City where they shall be all the Saints and Believers both of Old and New Testament together with one another and with the elect Angels and with their LORD to hidden Age ever as yet Thus it grows up into a Spiritual Kingdom How large and delightful a Field is here for Heavenly Meditation The manner of administring is not now by obscure Types and by darkish shadows as of old but without a veil and open faced yet Christ is the substance of both the Old and the New Testament the same promises and rewards of Life everlasting were in this Christ and purchased by him and there was one way and the same mean of receiving of this under both which was Faith in the Messiah The difference that is between the Old and the New doth discover it self in the Form of dispensation which had a diversity for the manner of it in the Old from the New But this made no real specifick difference or change in the essentials of the Christian Religion Under the Old Believers had an eye towards a Messiah who was then to come in the Flesh to be born of a Virgin and so they eyed the Pattern and Propheties and Promises looking for the coming Christ What were all the Figures and Types the Rites and Shadows but confirmers of their Faith in and encouragers of their hope of Christ's coming In the New we have it revealed that Christ is now actually already come to accomplish those Types and to perfect Salvation by his personal Sacrifice The Reader may therefore be well satisfied in this that our pleading of the cause of the weekly Seventh-day Sabbath as it hath no tendency in it self so no design in me To cast any back or to hold any under the Old Testament Administration as to the Types Shadows and Figures of it much less to draw off or to thrust back any from coming into and enjoying of New Testament priviledges I shall not say that it was the Objectors intended aim but it is evidently consequential from his manner of discourse that his Lines about this would secretly insinuate into the Reader of them as if the Assertors and Observers of the weekly Seventh day Sabbath did Apostatize into Judaic ceremonies I have here another opportunity to wipe off a slanderous charge which some have brought in against us as if we stood guilty according to those two Scriptures in the Margin of catching at the shadow and letting go the body Let it be granted that the Elements Rudiments or first beginnings mentioned in that place of the Epistle to the Galatians are the Mosaical Rites ceremonial Laws and shadows of a Christ who under that dispensation was then to come to be born of a Virgin but is now already come so born This then doth shew that the Apostle condemneth their superstitions observing or their keeping besides Right and Equity as that word which they tranflate ye observe doth signifie when taken in an ill sense Especially when it was with an opinion of acceptance and justification in the sight of God thereby such either un-Scriptural days as were never instituted by Jehovah Christ or Scriptural days in an un-Scriptural manner This were a foul matter of sinful Fact sharply to be reprehended As when either the right object a God in Christ is not worshipped or when for the matter of observing it is not New Testament Worship Or when for the Form of observing of Times and of Worship there was not an orderly address unto Jehovah Aelohim To the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit in a word way not in a spiritual manner not from inward principles of new Nature of Faith of Love and of Obedience or when the ends of observing of Days and Times were not right ends when the Gospel designs of humbling emptying and abasing of Man and of exalting and glorifying of a God in Christ were not promoted thereby when there was a
former dispensation which some way or other had not some Figures and shadows annexed to it There was blood of a Bull sprinkled on the Altar Christ and the Book of the Covenant it self and what shall we therefore lay aside Christ and his Book The particular commands of the ten words had some Types and Figures annexed to them Doctrines Duties Graces and Priviledges relating to the first and second words were set out by the Ark the Altars the Burnt offerings the Incense the Fire on the Altar and such like as any spiritual discerner may discover by comparing the Epistle to the Hebrews with the pattern in the Mount The third word or command in several duties of it had annexed Ceremonials as particularly about an Oath about a Vow Thus also about the sixth word or command as in a case of Murther about the seventh command as in a case of Jealousie about the eight word or command as in a case of Restitution and generally when a Soul did sin in omitting of some duty or in committing of a Trespass when it was ignorantly or in some other cases there were peculiar offerings that were appointed So that if this carnal reasoning did hold it would lay aside all and every of the other ten words This Epistle to the Colossians doth establish the Law of the ten words in the several particulars of it and the first word by forbidding the worshipping of Angels the second by condemning of Will-worship The third by taxing of Balsphemy especially when against the Holy Name of God The fourth word by shewing the accomplishment of the Ceremonials annexed to Sabbaths if it were admitted that the Seventh-day Sabbath were here included The fifth word by pressing to a discharge of Relation-duties The sixth by declaring against Anger Wrath and Malice The seventh by threatning of Fornicators and unclean Persons with the Wrath of God The eight by for bidding of wrong and commending of Justness and Equality in dealing The ninth by prohibiting of lying and evil speaking The tenth by charging of inordinate lusting to be Idolatry Which is also a breach of the first command Thus is the Decalogue confirmed in this Epistle The next premise is that the LORD Jesus Christ was Administrator under the Old as well as New Testament dispensation of Grace I take it to be one great occasion of many misapprehensions not only in the common sort of professing Christians but even in many who have gotten a name for Learning and for Godliness that they eye Christ as Christ and Redeemer only under the New Testament and God as Creator only under the Old Whereas Christ says of himself that he was anointed from the beginning before the Earth was as yet made and the Father speaks of this his Son under the Old Testament that he had anointed him Aelohim anointed him by pouring out of the Oyl of his Spirit upon him with an effusion of a fulness of Gifts and of Graces and of Joys mentioning it expresly as a matter of Fact done Mashiach or Christ or Anointed is one of the Mediators names often used in the Old Testament This is attributed to his substance The Father had ordained him to his Mediatoral Office of Priest King and Prophet even then It was Christ who was tempted by the unbelieving Israelites of old It was by Christ that all things were created Christ was the same under all Dispensations of Grace The Fathers purpose and election concerning his people was in Christ The whole Word is the Word of Christ Believers were reproached for Christ in Moses's time It was the Spirit of Christ who was in the Prophets and the Jews and Samaritans acknowledged the Messias before they knew who was the very person and this Christ acted as Mediator under the Old as well as under the New Testament Though his being born of a Virgin and so taking the Humane Nature to his Godhead were a great part of the New Testament Dispensation when in the days of his flesh here on earth he familiarly conversed with men For he had a way of appearing as Man to several Believers upon several occasions under the Old Testament as a forerunning discovery of this latter It was the Messiah or Christ who made himself known by open manifestation visibly audibly to Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to Moses and to several of the Prophets and to some others It was he who proclaimed the Law of the ten Words at Mount Sinai and who afterwards upon the same Mount gave the typical pattern for that Dispensation privately to Moses It was he who was with the Israelitish Church in the Wilderness he was the Mediator between God and Man even then he was the Reconciler even in those Ages This and more to this purpose I have already proved from the Scripture in this Book and therefore if the Reader would be further informed and inlightned in it I refer him to the Pages cited in the Margin This is he to whom all observe all It was the received and delivered Doctrine of them all the Prophets do give Witness that through the Name of the LORD Jesus Christ whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins A great full word this But a remark and observand a special one upon it It is acknowledged by this learned Man that it was the Son who from the Foundation of the World immediately in his own person transacted the Affairs of God with Men yet he opposeth the Seventh day Sabbath whereas it was a Law of Christ's giving to Mankind from the beginning Come we now unto the proofs of the several particulars forementioned whereof this is one that this New Heaven and this New Earth spoken of in prophetical Scripture this Renovation by a New Creation is not finished and completed but that it is yet to come in the large fufilling and accomplishing of it There will be New Heavens and a New Earth This we believe because the Scriptures have foretold it and we rejoyce in Hope of their Appearing For they are not as yet come These glorious Creatures are antedated by such Objectors by many hundreds of years For although there were some beginnings of a New Creation in the Days of Christ's Flesh here on Earth and after Christ's Ascension in the Apostle's time in Regenerations and Conversions as there were also in the Old For even there we may read of the creating of a clean Heart and of the renewing of a right constant Spirit Christ's name was filiated even under that Dispensation and there were Sons and Daughters new createdly born unto him even then and Believers were instated in the Messiah then As for that place in the second Epistle to the Corinthians If any man be in Christ he is a new creature Old things pass away beheld all things become new It doth speak a wonderful change in the New Creature The old carnal State the
old corrupt Principles the old crooked Rules the old selfish ends the old bad Frames the old uutoward Actings the erroneous mistakes the formality in Worship the old unscriptural Traditions the old Sins the old man's Conversion and such like These do pass away and all things contrary to these are become new A whole new man The Apostle speaks of what is peculiar to the New Creature in Christ as such For as for the old ceremonious Rites and their passing away even those that were not new Creatures but were carnal Professors of Christianity yet had these things passing away and they were put under a new Administation the new dispensation of Grace had Ordinances now in a more spiritual heavenly way and manner The passing away of old things here is of old things so far as they stand in opposition to the new Creature and unto that new life in and to Christ which now the converted person should live That as Christ so loved his people as to dye and rise again for them so should those in Christ thus evidence their Love to Christ by living no longer to themselves but unto him crucifying the old man mortifying the sins and lusts of that old man and vivifying or quickning the new man which was true in the Types and Figures before Christ was come born of the Virgin Mary and which is still true now after that Christ is come and ascended up into Glory But all this doth make nothing as to the passing away of the Law of the ten Words in all of them or in any one the least of them This is a distinct fort of Laws from the Typical Figuring Shadowy Institutions The Law of the ten Words as it always has been so is it now and still will be the Rule of the new Creature in Christ Jesus For what in one place is called the new Creatures Rule in another speaking to the same case is the keeping of the Commandments of God In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor Uncircumcision but a new Creature And as many as walk according to this Rule Peace be on them and Mercy and on the Israel of God The Israel of old had no saving benefit barely by the outward sign of Circumcision whereas God's Israel then who had the sign and the thing signified too they had the Mercy and Peace who were new Creatures united to the Messiah by Faith working by Love who had their hearts circumcised to love Jehovah their God who had sin subdued and lust mortified And the uncircumcision under the new Dispensation was not of any good avail without the new Birth without conjunction to and communion with it and if the Regenerate the new Born the new Created would evidence and approve themselves to be such and to be in Christ they must obey him and keep his Commandments But what is all this to any change of the weekly Sabbath from the Seventh to the First Day of the Week To pass from one sort of Laws into another sort of Laws from the Law of figuring Types to the Law of the ten Words and to infer the passing away of any one of the Laws of the ten Words from the passing of Types into the Antitypes and of signifying Figures into their signified things is a transition from one kind to another a way of sophistical arguing of fallacious disputing captiously to over-reach the ignorant too credudulous vulgar and to defraud them of their right to the Truth As for that part of the Objection which doth speak of new Heavens and of new Earth pretended to be completed and finished on the Day of Christ's Resurrection from whence to conclude the passing away of the Seventh-day Sabbath to make room for a First-Day-weekly Sabbath it is so scriptureless so natureless so reasonless an inference that it should have been more preconsidered by this Arguer whether it do conclude and prove any thing but this that the Adversaries would fain have something or other that might carry a little colour and some shew with it if they know what For let it be pondered upon search and examination that all those places of Scripture which do speak of the new Heavens and the new Earth do relate to a further time for their full accomplishment than precisely to the Day of Christ's Resurrection That Prophesie in Isaiah hath an eye to the more large and spreading conversions of the two and ten Tribes in the latter days yet to come How was this then fulfilled on Christ's Resurrection-Day who of them was then converted what eminent new Creatorship was there then brought forth which might put any such signal remark upon the First Day of the Week as from thence to become the new weekly Sabbath When the most of the Disciples themselves did scarce believe him to be raised till after that Day was over And two Disciples with whom he had walked some Miles that Day had little belief of his Resurrection and little knowledge of him till he disappeared from them How few in comparison were brought in unto Christ and made new Creatures in all Christ's life time at his Death and Resurrection and forty Days after that till after his Ascension and after the pourings out of the Holy Spirit That forementioned Prophesie doth foretel that Nations shall be brought under the Jews Dominions when those new Heavens and new Earth shall appear This was not at the time of Christ's Resurrection-day nor ever since and they were then and have been since for sixteen hundred years or more so far Ruling over the Nations that they have been a scattered despised broken people without so much as any Political Kingly Government amongst themselves It foretels that those of Judah and of Israel should be gathered out of all Quarters East West North and South This also is behind yet unfulfilled That Euphrates would be dry Was this on Christ's Resurrection Day Or has it been since Is not this also yet to come upon their return to their own Land in the latter Days Will not their grand Enemy the Turk be then overthrown who has so long wrongfully possessed their Inheritance which when it is will be so great a work for the inhabited Earth to take notice of where the ear-report shall come or the eye-witnessing be that it will obscure the memory of former Acts. Another Prophesie by Isaiah doth fortel that at that time of the new Heavens and the new Earth the ten Tribes of Israel as well as the other two of Judah and of Benjamin shall according as to an express promise return home to their own Country and Land For Sharon was in Gilead which belonged to Manasseh The Valley of Achor was a parcel of the Tract of Jericho in the Tribe of Judah There will then be a new face of things in their glorious and blessed Renovation when there will be divers things accomplished which are not as yet fulfilled As
from whom other Nations shall receive a shining Light giving them Honour doing them Homage and bringing in their Glory to them whom the King of Saints so much will delight in as to dignifie them with the Glory of his presence compleating and perpetuating their Purity and Peace their Holiness and Happiness So that these are Works which were never yet so finished and which yet remain behind to be done That Prophesie in Jeremiah doth speak much the same thing For there is foretold the destruction of the Enemies of the Jews which will be in the last days the usual expression setting out the accomplishment of this glorious Mystery as other Scriptures do declare Then will Jehovah renew a Covenant with all the Families of Israel All with the ten as well as with the other two Tribes Here also is the place expressed from what part of the inhabited Earth their return should first be even from the North. The Call would be to the generality of that people to come unto Christ and so great a multitude would be converted to him as were not to be numbred by man Jehovah himself would be their Conductor and Leader in the way of their Return The LORD 's providential appearance would be so wonderful in this that the Nations afar off and remote in distance from them would upon report hereof brought unto them much praise Aelohim for his Grace and Favour towards his People The Lamention was foretold then would be great when Innocents were slain at Christ's Birth but for greater in the latter Days after that when the Israelites would repent and turn unto Christ then should they return home to their own Land to dwell in their Cities Their Enemies would be overthrown by a Woman these Converts should peaceably inhabite their Country and become very happy in being made a pure glorious Church The new or renewed Covenant would be firmly ratified and surely established with them Jerusalem would once again be rebuilt Have these gladtyyings yet had their through fulfilling are they not Works yet to be performed That other Scripture in the Epistle to the Hebrews has the same Import and Design as to the Covenant and the renewing of it Here is no determinate Day of Christ's Resurrection mentioned when this Promise was to have its exact precise fulfilling and if we would point any particular time more than other according to this kind of arguing it was rather the Fruit of Christ's Ascension if it relate to those times so near Christ when this High Priest entred into the Holy of Holies For this Chapter doth more particularly set out the High Priesthood of Christ entred into Heaven with Blood and with Incense satisfying and interceding there fitting at the Right hand of his Father Raigning having all Power sending Messengers to teach his People and so is more consummately a glorious Priest King and Prophet together actually bestowing upon Believers all those purchased covenanted Blessings for which he intercedes on their behalf as Pardon Peace Grace Mercy Reconciliation Assistance Acceptance and such like which he did for Believers before but in another way of dispensing For whilst he remained on Earth even after his Resurrection till he ascended into Heaven the Levitical Priesthood did continue So that the Honour is more in some respect put upon Christ's Ascension if we will date these new things about that time when Christ went up into the highest Heavens For then more especially was the new and living Way new made by Christ's entring into the Holy of Holies into the highest Heaven As to what doth relate to the New Testament Ministration as such more spiritually dispensed we have several times acknowledged that without making any change in the sum and substance of the Christian Religion in the Law of the ten Words The Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews doth set out the excellency of the New Testament above and beyond the Old as to the clearness and gloriousness of dispensing the same Truths and Things of God which were of old under a darker administration This new Covenant spoken of has had in all Ages since the writing of that Epistle some particular fulfillings when the Regenerating Spirit doth write the Holy Law of the ten Words on the two Tables of the Mind and Heart of any person and people especially if they be of the converted Hebrews who are more eminently concerned in this Promise the most of which is yet behind unaccomplished and waits for the larger conversions of that people in days yet to come For that is a prophetical Scripture yet taken out of that place in Jeremiah which has been spoken unto already and which is again mentioned towards the closing up of the New Testament Canon as reserved for one of the choicest Blessings of the last days The newest things then will be the last things called therefore the newest Times For the fulfilling of this the whole Creation doth groan and wait especially those who have the First Fruits of the Spirit they groan in themselves expecting the Adoption Redemption of their Body The rest of the Creation long to be delivered from the wrong that is done to them by fallen Devils and by sinful men They labour under their subordination to vanity their oppresling servitude their travelling pain their use and service being so quite perverted from what it was at their primitive make and they shall be freed when the New Created-State shall come For which Holy longers do expect and hope when Tzijon shall put on her Royal Ornaments when the new Heavens and the new Earth shall appear clothed with their new glorious Dress when the Elect have been all gathered in unto Christ when the Saints shall be possessed of the full and whole of their Heavenly Inheritance to which they are adopted of their glorious Liberty to which they are appointed from remaining indwelling Sin to a complete Holiness from persecutions temptations sorrows and other troubles to an uninterrupted peace and happy Sabbatism from their strange Country where they meet with such unkind usage to their purchased Home and prepared Palace in their new City when their Body shall be more perfectly Redeemed that it may be transformed into a likeness unto Christ's glorious Body together with their Spirit and Soul all together fully to injoy this God in Father Son and holy Spirit for ever to glorifie him in consort with the blessed Inhabitants of that Heavenly Country where they may have all their waitings for fulfilled all their Prayers answered all their longings satisfied all their capacities filled up with a suitable good Then shall groanings pass into shoutings and sighings into singings O for that day O who will give this O how could Hearts sick of Love for more of Christ in clearness of Vision and in fulness of injoying even leap out of the Body and forthwith give a spring into Glory O how
Nature the King of Kings and Lord of Lords sitting on the glorious Throne of his exalted Majesty at the right hand of his Father negotiating all the weighty affairs of such more especially whom the Father hath given unto him There he continually presenteth himself and the All-sufficiency and full satisfactoriness of his sacrifice and oblation and the purchases of his passion and the merits of his death There he appears in a Court both of Justice and Mercy as an Advocate before the face of God making intercession for thee that all procured benefits may be made effectual for thee In that highest world there mayst thou see thousand times thousands ministring before the LORD and ten thousand times ten thousands of glorious Angels standing before Him these with the Spirits of just men perfectly sanctified worshipping before the throne of God and of the Lamb where his Servants serve him and see his face O my Soul be thou in the Spirit with those doing their work and enjoying their priviledg by improving a mystical Membership Lo there the new four-squared City Christ's Father's house which he is gone before to prepare that He and His good Disciples may be together there Enter in there and take possession of thy mansion Behold above this lower Firmament are the Treasures of Rain and of Dew of Snow and of Hail of all the upper waters when thou hast been there where thou hopest to be for ever come down a while and let thine Eye glance it self upon the visible objects of this middle world seest thou the yonder azure expanse O what a goodly Canopy hath the LORD spread over thy head observest thou what glittering spangles the starry studs are what shining balls the Sun and Moon are how glorious is their beauty how golden are their beams how operative their influences All that vast space of Heavens which my eye can compass the Sun the Moon and the stars these are thine a Part of thy Portion how useful a Creature is that light by which other visibles are discovered and discerned Here mayst thou see the cloudy bottles and the flying Fowls Here is the Air in which thou dost breath step one stair lower now and walk the earth a while If thou well observest it in its seasons in its springing verdure how lovely doth it appear in it 's garnished ornaments and green attire green a colour both pleasing and strengthening to the Eye whereas if it shewed its beauty only in white it would dazle thy fight into a blindness O what admirable variety is there here The grass I tread on how many are its kinds of how great benefit is this The herbs were made for my use and they have often served at my Table and have been both for food and for medicine how often have the flowers perfumed the Air for me and brought me in their sweetness in their way of natural perception taking some kind of delight that their maker has put any thing into them that might be pleasurable to me How many are the sorts of Fruit-bearing-trees and how often have their fruits dropt themselves to me and yielded themselves to my gathering and several of them have travelled scores hundreds and some of them thousands of miles to visit me and to let me know from Christ that much of the end of their being was to find out my hand and to fill my mouth How many springs have been flowing and Rivers running and wells filling to afford me water How often have I eaten of the kidneys of wheat of the finest of the flower How often have the well-fed both of the flock and of the herd parted with their lives to make meats and feasts for me What shall I say how many thousands of hands have wrought hard for me who never saw my face nor knew my name The Ploughman the sower the reaper the in-gatherer the thresher the winnower the seller the miller the kneader the baker the carder the spinner the weaver the dyer the clothier the taylor with multitudes of more and all these under my LORD Jesus Christ my Servants employed by him for a supplying good to me Shall I now dig deep and get into the bowels of this earth O what a hidden Kingdom of subterraneous minerals is here Here are the roots of those Trees which have afforded their beams of Timber for my habitation Here are the quarries of stone which have yielded materials to raise up walls for me to dwell safely within Here the Colliers dig hard to send in winter fewel to me Here the Searchers after the mines do find out the Tin and the Lead the Iron and the Steel the Brass and the Copper the Silver and the Gold which so often have brought me in some of their necessary Supplies If I go down to the Sea the great and wide Sea in a Ship there I may see the works of Jehovah and his wonders in the Deeps in the great waters which are under the earth How large and how deep a Subject is there here to swim and to fail in There are things creeping innumerable both small and great there the Whales the Sea-dragons do play in the troublesom Deep at the bottom whereof is the mire of Depth where is no standing And now my Soul thy meditations have led thee to the lowest world to Hell beneath a place out of which the Creator will fetch the glory of his Justice a place full of terrible confused darkness a place of torment Here I see the two-leafed-doors unfolding and opening of themselves before my thoughts through which passage when the damned are entred these doors do close themselves over such and they are left to sink and to fall down into the gulphy empty space a dark dreadful deep where are no walls to hang by nor any stay to rest on where the black passengers bound hand and foot are thrown down being amazingly surprized with overwhelming horrour full of fears they sink lower and lower till the bottomless pit of Hell do open its mouth upon them gaping wide to swallow them down into a foul and hideous prison a doleful place where are yelling Complaints and howling noises woful out-cries and frightful shrieks Thus have I taken a short view of the manifold marvellous works of Jehovah Aelohim as made in admirable wisdom How ample and large how clear and splendid how illustrious and magnificent is his name in all the earth who hath given his glorious Majesty above the Heavens who or what am I that he hath given me such an excellent formation as to behold and admire to acknowledg and confess his incomparable perfections in his gracious words and in his glorious works That he made me a tongued Trumpeter to proclaim and to commend his power and skill in so wonderful a Creation and that he has not taken me hence before I left behind me some written printed Testimony of his Royal Excellencies I was now passing into a Sabbath-enjoyment as
therefore and the comparative like as in the seventh Verse of the third Chapter relating to the twelfth Verse of the same Chapter doth shew the exhortation to be inforced upon the Believer therefore as the Holy Spirit exhorteth you to believe and obey the Voice of Christ so look to it that you do believe and obey his Voice The reason is strong from an example of old because your Fathers who contemned the Voice of Christ and did not contemper the word with Faith were frustrated of the Heavenly rest The reason of which consequence is seeing there is the like reason of you and of them For both to you and them it was Evangelized in the second Verse of the fourth Chapter The whole drift of the Discourse from the seventh Verse of the third Chapter to the eleventh Verse of the fourth Chapter doth respect a professing people that would pass for the people of God and be accounted Travellers towards the promised Heavenly rest which none but the believing perswadeable obedient true spiritual Israel of God would enter into The Sabbatism or rest spoken of in the first third ninth tenth and eleventh verses of this fourth Chapter is a rest that remaineth in the sixth and ninth verses of the same Chapter A rest that was before them towards which they were travelling and short of which they should fear lest they came by their loytering behind in the first Verse A rest that in the time of the Authour of this Epistle when he wrote this was as to himself and the believing people of God then alive before them and they were left behind it as yet short of it Into which they were not as then so fully entred but they were under a promise or expectation thereof And the same may be said of his believing people who are now alive in the present day whilst it is called to day There is a promised rest which they should have in their eye which they are not as yet so thorowly passed into Of which that place in the Psalm was a Typical prediction The rest here is a rest yet in the promise yet to come and hoped for attainable enterable and enjoyable if unperswadeableness hinder not The Eleventh verse doth again introduce and enforce the principal exhortation by way of rational inferehee and by a doubled Argument Therefore let us study to enter into that rest that not any one sall by the same example of disobedience If we believe and obey Christ's Voice we shall then enter into it but if not we shall be shut out from it as those were who died away in their unperswadeableness The whole Context both in this place and in the Psalm doth evidently demonstrate that the rest here treated of and foretold by David is such a rest as out of which the unbelieving unperswadeable and disobedient living and dying such would be shut and into which the believing perswadeable and obedient such a people of God should enter and none but such Which therefore cannot be ineant of a pretended first day of weekly rest For if that had been the rest the believing had already actually entred into not only the outward but also the inward rest and even the unbelieving had actually entred into the outward part of that rest had they so far observed it as the weekly Sabbath Whereas the Israelites in Type in Moses's time had not entred so much as into the outward part of the Type of it That is to say not those of them who were above twenty years of Age when the Spies returned from searching the Land All except Joshuah and Caleb died short of Canaan that were above that number of years whether Believers or unbelievers All the Promises and the Threatnings the Exhortations and the Cautions and such like that are made use of in all this Discourse do plainly relate to a prosessing people according as they believe or believe not and so do enter or not enter into this rest As for what doth concern the parallel wherein it doth not hold and wherein it doth hold I shall open now my thoughts The Parallel here is not between God the Father as Creator and his Son Christ as Redeemer though there are some others that would have it so For the LORD Jesus himself the Christ the Mediator was the Creator not excluding the Father nor the Holy Spirit As I have proved before in this Treatise and have here again put some of the Scriptures into the Margin which the Reader may examine if he have need The Authour of this Epistle doth industriously prove and promote this great Truth of Christ's Jehovah ship or God-ship by his Creator-ship as well as by other Arguments from Scripture That God who is spoken of in the tenth verse of this fourth Chapter of this Epistle to the Hebrews is the same Christ by whom the Father made the Worlds the Ages He was the LORD in the beginning who laid the Foundation of the Earth and the works of whose hands the Heavens were as is declared in the second and tenth Verses of the first Chapter the same God who built all things in the fourth verse of the third Chapter Which doth make way for the following discourse concerning his rest and entring or not entring into it as Christian Professors did believe and obey or not As this Objector himself doth elsewhere confess upon the tenth Verse of the third Chapter that Christ is so brought in as God and expresly called God to make way for this following discourse about works and rest The same God whose voice from his Father by his Spirit in his Word the Israelites of Old and the Hebrews in this Authour's time were called upon to hearken unto in the seventh and fifteenth Verses of that third Chapter The same living God from whom they should take heed lest by an evil Heart of unbelief in them they did depart in the twelfth Verse Which the Authour doth expresly interpret of Christ in the fourteenth Verse The same God who was tempted provoked grieved disbelieved by the Israelites in the Wilderness in the eighth ninth tenth sixteenth and seventeenth Verses of this third Chapter which also is confirmed elsewhere in the Word the same God who did rest the Seventh-day from all his Works which were finished from the foundation of the World in the third and fourth Verses of the fourth Chapter The same God who has a people more pecularly belonging unto him in the ninth Verse The same God whose Word is quick and powerful or living and active and sharper than any two edged Sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of Soul and of Spirit and of the Joynts or Nerves and Marrow and is a critical discerner or a Critick of the imaginations and thoughts of the Heart in the twelfth Verse hold forth also in other Scriptures The same God who is the great high Priest of his People passed into the Heavens as into the full Rest
distinguish that which the Objector did tumble into a confused heap and then from thence he drew wrong inferences He should better have bethought himself that when he would speak of the nature and Essence of a thing as particularly of a Sign or Ceremony and doth so define it that according to his own philosophical way all definitions of any thing should be universal or universally agreeing to the thing defined where-ever it is found it must be universally affirmed of that thing where-ever it hath a Being Whereas it is discovered that there is a Sign of Sanctification which yet is not so in his sense There are some natural Signs of this of sanctified Seasons separate for holy Services The Heavenly Luminaries were are and will be such Signs There is a notifying testifying-certifying Sign of Sanctification Both these the Weekly Seventh-day Sabbath has been is and will be It doth bespeak Holiness in the Nature and Being in the Name and Thing of it to the due observers of it and therefore doth widely differ from that which is meerly Ceremonial And both these Signs are Signs to all mankind O how special a gift was this Law of the k Seventh day Sabbath A choice favour One of the precious Mercies as to the Law To have all holy Rest even here in and with the LORD For unto this doth it Call To lodge in the bosom and heart of the Messiah O how delightful O how good O how pleasant I now return unto a further passage in a former another from this last Objector The next Particular to be demonstrated is that the new Worship was Typically signified in the figuring Pattern of old So that neither doth this make any change at all upon the weekly Sabbath to make it pass from one day of the Week unto another from the seventh to the first For as for that Typical Figuring Worship which was a part of the Pattern under that Administration in Types Shadows Figures and Rites which was performed on the Seventh-day Sabbath that way of Worship by Sacrifices of Lambs by Meat and Drink offerings Incense and such like as to this part these were perfected and accomplished in and by Christ when born of the Virgin Mary when living dying rising ascending But the Seventh-day Sabbath stands firm as one of the ten Words which are another sort of Laws that do abide for ever This Epistle to the Hebrews doth expresly affirm that the Spiritual Heavenly things of this New Testament of Glory were in the Pattern under the Old The parts of Worship now were then only in a more shadowy figuring manner and therefore you may find the same things as well as words transferred out of the Old into the New Testament Only spiritualized in the new As Priest Propitiatory Altar Sacrifices Offerings Incense and many such like Had this Ingager on the side for the cause of the first Day given instances in any particulars of VVorship in the place where he speaks of new VVorship it might have been discovered that the same was in the Pattern of Old to which Types then the Antitypes now do directly exactly answer If a skilful experienced Believer would write an exact Commentary upon the first second third fourth fifth and sixteenth Chapters of Levitious not now to mention much more in that Book and in Exodus Numbers and Deuteronomy and take off the Veil from them and give forth the true intended spiritual significant meaning of them by a collating of other suitable Scriptures particularly in the New Testament Every spiritual Discerner may quickly see there was Gospel-worship even then only differently for the manner dispensed The Ceremonies of old were Types and Figures and Shadows instituted of Jehovah Aelohim for these ends amongst others to be signifying Seals of the assurance of Christ's coming in the fulness of time to accomplish them and of those good things which Believers had then have now and shall have in after time in and by him whether they were Administrators of holy Things or particular Saints or the Saints generally all of them These were of old Signs and Seals of Regeneration of Justification of Sanctification of Acceptaon of Salvation and of eternal Life they were shadows of good things to come which shadows did continue until the time of correction at the coming of Christ in the Flesh born of the Virgin Mary which Christ was the Body of these things themselves the express form the summary substance of them They were now to pass into the spiritual things signified as those Typical Figuring signifying sealing Ordinances and Institutions of the New Testament Dispensation of Grace Baptism and the Supper of the LORD do really to believing partakers of them represent glorious things and will do so till Christ come to make all things new The forementioned time of correction did then eminently begin when Christ first openly shewed himself to be the same Messiah the same God manifested in the flesh for he was born a Saviour Of whom all the Prophets had foretold And it had still a further progress as he passed further on in his life fulfilling all Righteous Observances as afterwards by his Death and Resurrection The thorough perfection of which time of correction was when he ascended up into the Heavens The Holy of Holies there So that if we speak of God thus manifested in the flesh thus was Redemption Work in the Antitype carried on the complete finishing thereof was upon Christ's going up to his Father from Earth to Heaven For then and not till then was the thorough completed consummation of the Old Testament Administration and then and not till then was the full perfect initiation of the New Testament Dispensation as the Author of this Epistle to the Hebrews doth expresly declare it If men will lay any more stress and weight in their arguing about this to any particular time and day then the very form and the true Existence and real Essence and the consummating Consecration of that Priesthood of Christ which did set an end to and did put down the Aaronical and Levitical Priesthood before which the whole of the Antitypical Work of Redemption so far as it did relate to the Priestly Office of Christ the Mediator between God and Man was not perfectly filled up This doth stand and consist in those things which do belong unto the Ascension of our LORD Jesus Christ into Glory For whilst Christ was on Earth there were other Priests which offered gifts according to the Law of the Pattern who did serve unto the Pattern and Shadow of Heavenly things of Heaven it self and so long Christ had not the former typical Priesthood so unchangeably unpassingly to any other passing into him as the Antitype so long as he remained on Earth he was not such an High Priest as the Author of this Epistle doth plainly word it into which Heaven Christ did therefore ascend to
of this holy Law of the ten Words particularly to be breakers of that Law of the Seventh-day Sabbath so that these Laws were well known to the Church and people of God by a long continued handing of them down by Posterity from Age to Age though practical Anomy or lawlessness had too much crept in and corrupted them of that Generation who neglected and broke them especially whilst bond-slaves in Egypt Afterwards when this Law was proclaimed and commanded at Mount Horeb where was a great mixture a miscellaneous multitude of Israelites and Gentiles who were present at that Mount and the stranger is expresly named in the very Letter of the Fourth Word or Command so that he also was under the obligation to yield obedience unto the Law of the Seventh day Sabbath The mind of man having by sin covered over with thick darkness ignorance errour and long diâ—use evil inclinations to Vice having much depraved and blinded the Understanding The LORD in words of his own mouth proclaimed this Law that it might be a manifest Testimony to mankind that natural Notions and Novelties of the Law concerning the difference between Good and Evil Duty and Sin were divinely ingrafted into the Nature of Mankind and were consentaneous unto this Eternal Rule of Holiness and of Righteousness which is in Aelohim He instaurs and restores the intire knowledge of his Will in his Law by this solemn promulgation that those old Letters of it which were much worn and defaced in the decayed Monuments of corrupt hearts might be more deeply ingraven and more plainly read again that what men had observed he by his own speaking Voice and writing Finger might rightly explain thus interposing his own Royal Authority to beget an inward testimony in their own consciences for the justness and equity of his holy righteous Law that all Mankind might be convinced of their sin and misery and might thereby be awakened to make out after a remedy otherwise they would be left altogether without excuse Upon the second of the Trumpets at Mount Sinai all Mankind was bound to make diligent inquiry after that which the LORD who is the King of Nations there spake so that they are all under his Law and are all bound thereunto being all concerned to take notice of the promulgation thereof by Royal Proclamation though more especially given forth at that place of Sinai It is not unworthy of serious consideration what a tonourous loud voice that was which not only all the Israelites did hear who yet were about six hundred thousand men a multitude that took up a great space of ground when Aelohim spake all the Words of the Decalogue This voice was also accompanied with a sound of Trumpets so exceeding loud as that the Lord could make all Mankind then alive to hear it such a sound shall go forth in the last day Besides all this what tempests were there at that solemnity what smoke what fire yea what thunderings and what an Earth-quake Such as might shake all the Inhabitants of the Earth at once and make them take notice of it For not only did Mount Sinai or Horeb quake greatly but that expression of Mount Sinai also doth shew that other parts of the Earth were shaken too The Earth was then shaken as the Earth shall be shaken at Christ's coming in the later days when all Nations shall be shaken or moved or made to tremble all and every one of them so shaken as the Heavens then will all of them at once All the Earth is bid to rejoyce at Jehovah's reigning which is described by his solemn giving of the Law which the Church is to rejoyce at and this is applyed unto Christ all the inhabited World was then enlightned all the Earth saw and trembled he then and their declared himself to be LORD of the whole Earth in giving forth this Kingly Law Thus this glorious Law-giver himself descended from Heaven with a shout his Charriot being twice ten thousand thousands of Angels the LORD being with them at Sinai in the Sanctuary and when he ascended to on high he led captive a Captivity he had taken Gifts unto Adam observe so is the Original word or in Adam which Paul doth explain to be men all Adam's posterity particularly from that time and also the rebellious to dwell with that God This Law universally concerneth all for in Christ all are one and whoever they were of the Heathen Nations that came into the Church of God in that day and were obedient unto all the Laws of Jehovah they had a part with Israel in all the holy things of God the Strangers themselves were under a Promise of having an allotted Inheritance in the Holy Land together with the Tribes of Israel There were the same privileges to the Obedient to the Stranger as to the Home-born The same judgments executed upon Transgressors of the Law of the Ten Words were he the one or the other All Nations under Heaven heard report of Israel and of the LORD 's appearing for them and giving them his holy Law Let the Reader further observe how it was afterwards when Solomon built the Temple at his dedicating of it he put the Stranger into his Prayer as well as the Israelite And this wise just Judge especially whilst his heart was right with the LORD judged according to this Law of the ten Words and the judicials annexed thereunto Solomon had his Dominion from Sea to Sea and from the River unto the ends of the Land they that dwelt in dry places kneeled before him and his Enemies licked the dust The Kings of Tharshish and of the Isles rendred an oblation the Kings of Sheba and Seba offered a present and all Kings bowed down to him all Nations served him he reigned over all Kingdoms who were someways under his subjection being herein a Type of Christ so that Solomon was a kind of Universal Monarch upon Earth ruling and governing by Jehovah's Laws Consider what the Office and Work of the Prophets was after Solomon's time even to preach Commentaries and Sermons upon this Law of the ten Words directing transgressors unto the Messiah to procure pardon and reconciliation And these Prophets especially some of them had not only the Israel of God put into their Embasse and Commission but also the Gentile Nations and Kingdoms and People let Jeremiah be one eminent instance of this when the LORD did set over the Nations and other the Kingdom according unto that Word which he brought or sent to them from Jehovah and according as they yielded obedience or not unto this Law of Jehovah so they were either built and planted or plucked up and broken down spoiled and destroyed All those Nations unto whom Jehovah sent Jeremiah with a word of Prophety were many not Jerusalem and Judah the Kings thereof the Princes thereof but also Pharaoh King of Egypt and his Servants and his Princes and
not the lips of Knowledge go we from him his foolishness is deceitful Sophistry deceptory fraud But the Wisdom of the Acute is to understand his way of practical business Philosophical Folly has too long been made an Hereditary Possession one Generation to another Inâ—pt Opinions have been pertinaciously reteined But the Wittily-ingenious who take up with naked Truth in naked Souls they crown themselves with Knowledge and they put a Crown upon Knowledge Wisdom is their rich and royal Ornament The tongue of the Wise maketh knowledge good grateful commendate renders it amiable adapting of it and opportunely using it to time place person and case Speech when according to the Laws of the Heavenly Apothecary-Art salutiâ—erously compounded of proper Scripture Ingredients is Healthfulness curing the unsoundness the grief of mind There is healing Medicine in such a tongue The lips of the Wise do sow Science they winnow it first sever it from chaffy Philosophy and then sow it pure That is the true good Knowledge which the Wisdom of God doth teach in the Word The best Intelligence is that which is grounded upon the Word To this should we attend and bend our mind referring all our study hither especially the teachers of others they of all men should be in these written Words They are then in their proper Studies and Places it should be their Being and Life This makes men wise in heart it doth prudentiate and intellectuate them The suavity the sweetness of the lips will add Doctrine by a commodious aptness of savoury Expressions and by a pleasing elegancy of winning Eloquence we should be Lords Masters Possessors of this The heart of savoury wise ones will make their mouth to understand it will suggest to the tongue what how when where and to whom to speak A more inner understanding of a Truth or Thing doth much help the Faculty of Speech about that Truth and Thing New noble Conceipts will still be under-begotten It expedites the lips when the Rule of all is this Word Savoury knowledge may be seen and read in the faces of such prudent ones It puts a placidness modesty right-composedness upon their Countenance which is an Index of their Wisdom Such are Cool of Spirit Moderate placid sedate not hot and hasty and rash to pour out Words Those who have all their desire and delectation in this to find out in a way of searching all solid Science and useful Wisdom they withdraw themselves from Philosophick and over-worldly Diversions to immix themselves in those Holy Studies that do bring in durable Essence Their Understanding has depth of living Waters and their Vein is flowing over with it To be without the knowledge of the Soul or for the Soul to be without Knowledge not good this How can such an one govern his Actions and order his Affairs with judgment and discretion That is Wisdom which will be found and acknowledged to be Wisdom at the last in thy last or utmost end Cease we therefore from erring and straying out of the way of those written words of Wisdom O prize we this for the lips of Wisdom are Gold and a multitude of Gems and a precious Vessel Vain affectation of Humane Wisdom is drossy strawy broken and earthy He that wanders out of the Way of Understanding from this prescript word of the LORD will in the end remain in the Cougregation of the incurably-dead To keep the words of the Wise in the belly is sweetly delectable they will be aptly put together in the lips Study Wisdom that thou maist trust in Aelohim he makes known Wisdom to thee to this for this end They are his written Words that do teach it In the Scripture are those excellent Counsels that do tend to true and to sound Knowledge The Counsels and Knowledges that are found here are the Justness or Rectitude of Truth or certainty of the words of Truth every way true It is the truth that is here learnt To make to return words of truth to those who send thee words truth when others do send their Questions and propound their Cases to thee for resolution and satisfaction We should make our heart and our ears to enter into Discipline into the Words of Knowledge The seat of Wisdom is in the heart when that doth rejoyce to see and to hear others to be wise the whole man rejoyceth The reins of a Teacher do rejoyce when the lips of a Scholar do speak Rightnesses When the prescript word and not our own or others carnal corrupt reason is followed we shall make a blessed progress in holy Sciences Here is truth which we should acquire into our possession the right knowledge of Naturals and Spirituals not parting with it upon any terms That is Wisdom Instruction and Understanding which is Scripture-Truth He who is thus wise is manly in strength A man of Knowledge has fortifying Prowess It doth increase his inner and outer vigor These Word-wisdoms are unreached heights 100 sublime for and to an evil-fool lofty excellencies which he cannot come at whilst such But to know these is to the inlightned Soul as honey or the distillings of the honey-Comb sweet and nourishing what natural causality honey may have this way for the sharpning quickning clearing of Ingeny let others inquire If thou have found it it shall be a last reward It would be the Glory of Kings to search out a Word in all their warlick and civil as well as Religious transactions to inquire after those treasured senses of Scripture which would direct them in this It would teach all to word their words over its circumstance or Modes aptly opportunely as if it moved aright upon Wheels No answers but are Scriptural concordant thereunto are sapid Counsel or savoury Advice judicious Reason returned to inquirers Those who in this way do seek Jehovah shall understand all whatsoever it be that doth belong to their Office and Duty A Prince a Leader in State or Church or Field of all men should not want understanding in Scripture Sciences in word acts He should be well skilled in all sorts of useful Learning otherwise their imprudent misgovernment will put them upon oppressing and misguiding their people O love we this Wisdom and this way of VVisdom The Primitive Understanding of Adam which he had concreated with him is not now to us we are corruptly bruitish as to the answering of difficult Questions it is only to be had from Christ in the Word who is able and willing He the God-man For the knowledge of holy Ones Angelical heavenly Ones is not so with us now not so born and bred with us of our own but is a gift from him who is all VVisdom Reades let thine eyes therefore be now up to him that thou mayst be one of the God-taught Ones that thy knowledge may even whilst thou art here on Earth more grow up to answer the knowledge of those
glorified in Heaven Thy knowledge should be perfecting as theirs perfected O for that blessed day when all the imperfections in a Believers knowledge shall be wholly done away VVhen it shall be more presentially visible in the innate Light both of the Knower and of the things known VVhen the Saints shall see face to face and know even also as they are known FINIS a Revel 17. 14. and 19. 16. Psal 48. 2. Esa 14. 13 14 15. Acts 7. 55 56. Job 26. 6 7 9. and 37. 9 22. Esai 6. 1. and 66. 1 2. b Exod. 20. 4. Deut. 5. 8. Psal 24. 1 2. Job 11. 9. 2 Pet. 3. 5. Gen. 1. 9 10 22. c Job 38. 8 9 10. and 10. 21 22. d Job 26. 7. Luke 16. 26. Psal 40. 2. Job 33. 22 24 30. Psal 16. 10. and 49. 15. Ezek. 32 18-32 e Mat. 16. 18. Job 38. 17. Psal 9. 17. and 107. 18. Job 33. 22 24 28 30. Job 17. 16. Luke 16. 23-28 Prov. 15. 11. Mat. 11. 23. Esai 14. 9-15 f Gen. 2. 2 3. Exod. 20. 10 11. Hebs 4. 3 4. g Gen. 2. 2. h Mar. 2. 27. The Sabbath was made Exod 20. 11. Hebrew 4. 3 4. John 5. 17. i Exod. 20. 11. k Mar. 2. 27. See Hutterus Hebrew l Gen. 2. 3. Here is Him This It The same or some such like relative to be understood as Prov. 3. 27. Eccl. 2. 11. m Exod. 31. 10. Deut. 5. 12. 15. so to do the Passover Deut. 16. 1. Mat. 26. 18. Heb. 11. 28. To do the feast of Booths Deut. 16. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 n John 7. 23 24. 1 Cor. 10. 15. and 7. 25 40. 1 Cor. 15. 3. 14. Acts 17. 2. and 18. 28. John 5. 39. Acts 17. 11. Job 6. 25. o Rom. 1. 2. 2 Tim. 3. 15. Dan. 10. 21. John 17. 17. 2 Tim. 2. 15. Rom. 15. 4. 2 Tim. 3. 16 17. Deut. 4. 1 2. Prov. 30. 5 6. Revel 22. 18 19. Deut. 12. 32. Joh. 20. 30 31. Gal. 1. 8 9. 1 Tim. 6. 3 5. Mar. 7. 7 -13 p 2 Tim. 3. 15 17. Mat. 22. 29. Mar. 12. 24 27. Gal. 1. 8 9. 1 Tim. 6. 3 4 5. q Jerem. 23. 28 29 30. r Exod. 34. 28. and 31. 18. Deut. 10. 4. 4. 13. Psal 19. 7 8 9. John 10. 34 35. Jam. 1. 25. Deut. 5. 22. Psal 119. throughout Joh. 15. 7 10 14 15. Mat. 5. 17 18 19. rom 3. 31. Luke 16 17 29 31. Psal 93. 5. and 111. 7. 1 Per. 1. 23 24 25. s Compare Gal 6. 15. 16. with 1 Cor. 7. 19. Phil. 3. 16. Isai 8. 16. 20. Deut. 10. 4 12 13. Prov. 8. 8 9. Prov. 6. 20-23 Jam. 2. 10 11 12. Luke 17. 19. Ezek. 18. 19 21. Jer. 7. 23. 31. Lev. 10. 1. Mar. 28. 20. Rom. 4. 15. 5. 13. 1 John 3. 4. Ezek. 18. 10 11. Lev. 4. 1 2 13 14. Rom. 3. 20. 7. 7. 1 King 8. 9. Deut. 10. 5. Exod. 25. 16 21 22 23 24 25. t Exod. 20 -11 Deut. 5. 12 -15 u Exod. 20 -11 Deut. 5 -15 Gen. 2. 2 3. Ezek. 46. 1. Luke 13. 14. w Gen. 1. 5 8 13 19 9. 3 31. chap. 2. 2 3. Ezek. 46. 1. x Gen. 2. 2 3. Exod. 20. 11. y Gen. 2. 2 3. z Exod. 16. 23 30. a Exod. 20. 1 i. b Exod. 31. 14-18 34. 21. and 23. 12. 35. 2. Lev. 23. 3. Deut. 5. 14. c Jer. 17. 19 -27 Neh. 10. 31. 13. 15-2â—2 d Luke 23. 56. Hebr. 4. 4. e Exod. 20. 8-11 f Gen. 2. 1 2 3. g Luk. 4. 16 31. Mat. 12. 1 2 c. Mar. 2. 23 c. Luk. 6. 1 c. 13. 10 15. John 5. 9 c. Mar. 1. 21. 3. 1 2 c. Luk. 14. 1 c. h Rom. 4. 4 6 24 25. Phil. 3. 9. Rom. 5. 12â— 21. Gal 4 4 5. Rev. 19. 8. Isai 45. 23 24 25. 2 Cor. 5. 19 21. Rom. 13. 14 Gal. 3. 27. Jer. 23. 6. i 1 Pet. 2. 21 22 23. Eph. 5. 1 2. 1 John 3. 3. 4. John 1. 16. 1 John 2. 1-6 4. 17. John 15. 7 10 12 14 15. Mat. 11. 27-30 John 13. 34. 12. 49 50. 17. 8. 1 Cor. 11. 1. Heb. 12. 2. Mat. 5. 16-19 Rom. 3. 19-31 Mal. 4. 2 4 5 6. and Rev. 14. 12. 12. 17. 22. 11 12 13 14 18 19. k Act. 13. 14 c Act. 17. 1 2 3. 16. 13-16 and 18. 4. l Compare Luke 4. 16. with Act 17. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As it was so to Christ so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 m Gen. 2. 2 3. n Exod. 20. 9 â—0 11. o Psal 92. title compared with the rest of the Psalm p Isai 56. 1-8 reade and consider how many special Blessings are here made over q Acts. 13. Acts. 17. Acts. 18. r Mar. 2. 27. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 s Mat. 24. 20. t Genes 2. 2. 3. u Isai 58. 13. w Mar. 2. 27. Heb. 4. 3 4. x Exod. 16. 23. 30. y Exod. 20. 8 9 10 11. z Isai 56. 2-8 66. 23. a Lev. 23. 3. 2. King 4. 23. Mar. 1. 21. 6. 2. Luk. 4. 16 17 31. 6. 6. 13. 10. Act. 13. 14 42 44. 17. 2. 18. 4. Act. 13. 15 27. 15. 21. Act. 16. 13 16. Psal 92. title compared with the rest Numb 28. 9 10. 1. Chron. 23. 31. 2 Chron. 2. 4. 8. 13. 31. 3. Nehem. 10. 33. Ezek. 45. 17. 46. 1 4 12. 1 Pet. 2. 5. b Deut. 5. 12. c Exod. 31. 14 15. Neh. 9. 14. Exod. 16. 23. Isai 58. 13. Neh. 8. 9 10 11. 10. 31. Exod. 35. 2. d Gen. 2. 2 3. e Exod. 16. 23-30 f Exod. 20. 10 11. g Deut. 5. 14. h Exod. 31. 15. 35. 2. i Levit. 23. 3. k Mat. 24. 20. l Act. 13 24 27. 15. 21. 16. 13. 17. 2. 18. 4. m Luk. 13. 14. n Heb. 4. 4. o Gen. 2. 2. 3. Exod. 16. 28. 29. 30. p Exod 20. 8 9 10. q Deut 5. 12 13 14. r Exod. 23-12 31. 13 14 15. s Exod. 34. 2â— t Exod. 35. 1 2. u Compare Exod-31 13. 17. with the fore-going part of the Chapter w Levit. 19. 3. 30. 26. 2. x Jerem. 17. 22. y Ezec. 20. 19. 20. 44. 24. 46 1 2 4. z Nehem. 13. 17 19 22. Nehemiah being Lord Deputy would not suffer any to keep shambles or a Fair on the Seventh-day-Sabbath norto do harvest work in harvest-time on that day a Luke 23. 56. b Luke 13. 14. c Act. 13 14 -44 16. 13. 17. 2. 3. 18. 4. d John 20. 30. 31. e 1 Cor. 4. 6. f John 5. 22 27. 3. 35. g John 17. 2. h Mat. 28. 18. i Deut. 18. 15 18 19. Acts 3. 22. 7. 37. compared k Isai 42. 1. compared with Mat. 1â— 18. Phil. 2. 6 7. 8. l Psal 40. 8 9 10. compared with Mar.