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heaven_n	enter_v	righteousness_n	scribe_n	2,630	5	11.0710	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57540	Ohel or Beth-shemesh A tabernacle for the sun, or, Irenicum evangelicum : an idea of church-discipline in the theorick and practick parts, which come forth first into the world as bridegroom and bride ... by whom you will have the totum essentiale of a true Gospel-church state according to Christs rules and order left us when he ascended ... : published for the benefit of all gathered churches, more especially in England, Ireland and Scotland / by John Rogers ...	Rogers, John, 1627-1665?; Rogers, John, 1627-1665? Challah, the heavenly nymph.	1653 (1653)	Wing R1813; Wing R1805; ESTC R850	596,170	655

to be quite cut off and parted asunder but afterward being hurried through with that headlong and furious force I had strength to stay a little beyond it and to perpend the perplexible perill which I was in I stood as one amazed or rather as one that knew not whether he were alive or dead I knew not how to beleeve my self lesse then a dead man and afterward at least mortally and deadly wounded if not desperately and deplorably eut in twain Oh! how I stood trembling and tumbling in my thoughts untill the vitall bloud which was fled for the hearts defence began to disperse again and to go quietly to their own homes and then I looked about and turned me to the gate-way but the appearance was pass'd away the sword gone and vanisht whilest I was left alone the rest running away in a labyrinth of fears without any wound without but deeply and wofully wounded within and never si●hence to the praise of Gods grace as I know of have I had such extravagant preposterous expressions passed from me But Good God! What was thy will herein Thou who art not tyed to means or order best orderest and disposest of all things for thine owne design and glory and so this was I am sure but what it was I know not yet it left a lasting impression upon me and the scar is yet to be seen in my heart though the wound be healed But alas How long and lamentable I lay afflicted and in continuall fears after this Every thunder and lightning I look'd upon as my fate and sent for me and then would I fall to my Prayers and saying my Creed and Commandements and to my Sermons as fast as might be that I might be found wel-doing at least if not as a charme to defend me or a challenge to God by virtue of them to keep and blesse me this I remember was my great comfort to consider some did not do thus but altogether sl●ghted holinesse duties and did live wickedly and carnally in drunkennesse disobedience Sabbath-breaking and severall sins every day which I was so farre from grief at and weeping over that I in my heart rejoyced in it that I was in more hopes then they and as I fancyed my self better then they and should receive more favour But all this while like an Israelite in Egypt I work'd for life and my services were my Saviours and I would to my brothers sisters and School-fellowes and companions to take occasion to talk of heaven and hell and what a hard thing it was to be saved For some time after this is Malden where I was boarded and put to the Free-school I had a certain dream which by the consequence proved a praevision of what is now come to passe it was on a night about the time when the Spaniards and Hollanders had a scuffling and a kinde of Naumamachy upon the Downes for then some talking of that fight fill'd me full of fears and in the night my dream was that fire rain'd as I may say or rather powred down round about and looking where I was I thought it to be without the Coach-yard gate of my Fathers house and I was frighted to see nothing but fire looking upward and round about praying for deliverance none came nigh me round about by a good space but flaming else I thought in all places and I could see none exempted wherefore being afflicted for my Father and our family I fell on my knees for them and I thought I continued so long ere I could be heard but was at last bid to arise and look and then I thought the fire fell not so fast on my Fathers house as it did before but by little and little abated till I awaked Now although this dream had seised much upon my spirits yet I made no other account of it then of a fancy till five or six years after in the Isle of Ely meeting with Dr. Draiton D. D. he declared to me for severall reasons that this must be more then a meer dream as working of fancy and that something was to come which I should finde this to predemonstrate instancing in some of the like kinde which himself his wife and others had met with as warnings and predictions and therefore he wished me in no case to slight or contemn it for that he was confident it did shew some fiery and angry dispensation upon all our family and my father and the rest should lye under some trouble by the times or otherwise and my self should be set free and at this liberty to pray for them and that by degrees they should be recovered and brought out and the fire abate which interpretation more fully by farre from his own mouth is for the most part verified at this day But all this while I was labouring for life exceedingly formall and I did much covet to know the things of God and therefore wished oft I were but a Minister such a one as Mr. Fenner is or Mr. Marshall or Mr. Hooker or my Father or some other that was eminent that I might attain to their knowledge and then I thought I should do abundance more for God as if God were beholding to me for my obedience and I would then I thought be sure to get salvation as if I could then easily do it Thus a poor creature I continued for severall years together and if you knew but half what I have met with in that time you would say I was a poor creature indeed as any alive for I kept to my self many fast-daies and would eat nothing heard read sang Psalmes meditated used Soliloquies and prayed many times a day and what not and yet at last despaired even to the depth what by often thoughts of hell reading Drexellius upon eternity and then thinking of endlesse easlesse and remedilesse torments and what by frequent frights as before and what by my Father once preaching on the fool in the Gospel Luk. 10.20 Thou fool this night will I take away thy soul then whose shall those things be that thou hast provided Whence he handled a point of the folly of men to lay up here and forget heaven and shewing that heaven came not with ease on a down bed but many shall strive hard to enter and shall not be able and that except you exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees Mat. 5.20 you shall in no case enter into the kingdome of heaven What with these and other things I was almost in the bottomelesse abysmes of torments I took the Bible to look these Scriptures read them over and over and over again but the more I read the more I roar'd in the black gulf of despair where I was cast so deep as to me and others I seemed sometimes past all recovery I prayed fasted mourn'd got into corners yea many times being I was ashamed to make my case known I have ran into barnes stables house-of

same for matter and substance made by all An Account of Faith as it was made and given in by word of Mouth on the Eighth day of the Eighth Moneth 1651. In a Publick Meeting-place at Dublin upon his entrance into Church-fellowship there By J. R. c. I Acknowledge and profess from my very heart before the Lord and you all here present That I do believe there is but one God who is omnipotent omniscient omni-present and an infinite and all-glorious Being and distinguished into three subsistences or if that word offend I will say into three personal proprieties and relations according to his several operations and administrations namely of the Father Son and Holy Ghost The Father is of himself the Son proceedeth from the Father and the Spirit from them both And although the Saints cannot take hold of God as God incomprehensible and inapprehensible yet they know him as a Father as a Son as a Spirit dwelling in them and so far as his several attributes makes him known to them First Concerning the first Person so called of the Trinity or God the Father that he is the great Creator and Governor of all things in Heaven and Earth eternally distinct as in himself from all Creatures as Creatures in his absolute Being and absolute Well-Being And that this God shall judge the World But Secondly Concerning the second in the Trinity the Son Jesus Christ of whom Moses the Prophets and the Apostles wrote and in whom all the Scriptures are and shall be fulfilled I believe him as he is both God and Man making a compleat Mediator and as God equal to the Father as Man of the tribe of Judah the line of David the seed of Abraham and born of Mary c. And as both the onely Mediator between God and Man And he was from everlasting and yet as Man from the Womb he was separated called appointed and anointed most fully with all gifts and graces necessary for all mankinde Concerning his Offices That he is King Priest and Prophet First As the Prophet he hath revealed his Fathers whole will so far as is necessary to Salvation in his Word and Ordinances and speaks it to his Church and Saints by his Word and Spirit Secondly As Priest being consecrated for us he hath appeared to put away sin and hath offered himself the sacrifice for the sins of the people once for all laying down his life for his sheep and he hath absolutely abolished all legal and Ceremonial rites and shadows and is now entred into the Holy of Holies and sits at the right hand of glory making intercession for us Thirdly As King in general all power is given him in Heaven and Earth and he doth exercise his power over men and Angels good and bad for the safety of his Saints and destruction of his enemies till he hath made them all his foot-stool In particular that Christ is King over his Church and shall reign on Earth spiritually in the hearts of his Saints and by his Word and Spirit he gathers all his peoples together from Idolatry Superstition Darkness c. into his own Spiritual way of worship and holiness and brings them to the Father and by his Spirit he makes them a peculiar people a royal Priesthood a holy generation and instructs and governs them by his Laws prepared for his Church and people Thirdly Concerning the Spirit the third of the Trinity that he is sent by the Father and the Son to make application of the whole work of Redemption to those whom the Father hath given to the Son by his decree and whom the Son hath brought to the Father by his blood according to the everlasting Covenant made between the Father and the Son which the Spirit carries on to us as the Covenant of Free-grace for our Salvation By the operation of this holy Spirit in me This Grace was begun first by and through the Law which awakned me so as that I saw I was lost and undone for ever and then by the Gospel whereby Christ was revealed to me and in me by his Spirit and his righteousness cleared up mine But of this hereafter This Spirit applyed Christ Jesus as far as I knew him manifested to and in me by which I was brought at length to close with Christ and that so unfainedly that I resolved to loose all before Christ. So such are First by Christs righteousness justified Secondly by his Spirit adopted sons Thirdly by his Grace sanctified and really changed to the piety and purity of Gods holy Image gradually and Fourthly Glorified and changed from misery to happiness which begins in the inward sence of Gods soul-melting love to them in Christ from whence is the hope of glory and assurance of salvation joy peace and happiness within c. Fifthly Concerning the Scriptures in Old and New Testament they are the Word of God as they were writ and indited by the holy Spirit and that they are the standing rule left us both for our knowledge and practise doctrine and Discipline here below Sixthly I believe that by the first Adams disobedience we all fell and that we are all by nature the children of wrath dead in sins and trespasses and that those who live and dye in their sins cannot be saved nor any without regeneration or new birth Seventhly Concerning the Church of Christ I know it is but one Body Universal and Catholick and that is of all Saints past present and to come invisible and visible yea spiritual and formal But this I also believe that God hath left a rule in his Word for Particular Congregational Churches here upon Earth as the visible to make up his one intire and universal Body Eighthly Now concerning Christs particular Churches I believe as I have preached and proved such a Church to be a Fellowship called out of the world and united to Christ As Members to the head and all one with another according to the Word for the worship of God and the edification one of another and that such must be separate from false ways worships Antichristian superstitions observancies c. and willingly joyn in Christian Communion and Covenant or resolution of cleaving close to the Lord in this his way with purpose of heart and by free confession of their Faith and subjection to the Gospel and therein especially I believe That the Ordinances of Christ are to be freely and frequently dispenced as preaching praying prophecying one by one Singing of Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs Sacraments Censures Offices and Officers and often and ordinary exercising of gifts And that there is a chusing of and setting apart Officers by the whole Body and that none doth orderly do the office of a Minister among them but such and besides to omit many other things and bring all up in this rear I do really believe that such orderly Churches have priviledges royal oracles and seals and