Now it will be to our purpose to consider in what respect these shall be said to sing the song of Moses which is Typical for I believe that both Jews and Gentiles shall sing this song And they sung a new song saying Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the Seals thereof for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and Nation And hast made us unto our God Kings and Priests and we shall reign upon the Earth Rev. 5.9 10. so that out of every people Christ will have a peculiar people Now let us see how well the children of God travelling towards this new Jerusalem and the children of Israel towards the Land of Canaan will Agree together First then to take in the spiritual meaning as the Children of Israel were in Egypt under sore bondage so are all the sons and daughters of Adam by nature under the bondage of sin and Satan and led captive by him at his pleasure 2 Tim. 2.26 now the Lord by the hand of Moses he brings them out of Egypt and they are set safe over the Red Sea and now for the Land of Canaan but they came not thither for we read of their sad fall through unbelief Heb. 3.18 so the Lord by the death of Jesus Christ hath set out a way for all towards the heavenly Canaan but few come thither and why so Many are called but sew are chosen one of a Tribe and two of a Family as the Scripture witnesseth Many that are first shall be last and the last first Secondly if we look at the mystical meaning then by Egypt we are to understand Babylon mystical Babylon amongst whose inhabitants there is Egyptian darkness and the Lord now in the dayes of the Gospel having called and brought his people out of Babylon while they stand upon a Sea of glass mingled with fire they are inabled by the Spirit of God to sing They sing the Song of Moses and of the Lamb saying Just and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints Isa. 33.22 The Israel after the flesh they sing being delivered from outward Enemies the Israel after the Spirit they shall sing being delivered from all their enemies both inward and outward In Rev. 19. you have the great joy and rejoycing of the Saints at the downfal of Babylon whilst the Kings of the Earth which have committed Fornication with her and the Merchants of the Whore are weeping and wailing and crying out Alas alas the Saints they shall be saying Alleluiah salvation and honour glory and power unto the Lord our God even so Amen Alleluiah It is a praising and rejoycing in the Lord for his great Judgements and vengeance which he had taken and to this end Christ was anointed to proclaim the day of vengeance of our God Isa. 61.2 63.4 34.8 but in what posture then shall the Saints be in that day you may see in the 7. vers. Let us be glad and rejoyce and give honour to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his Wife hath made her self ready Well amongst all this vengeance and Judgement let us see what will be the Name of Jesus Christ and that is King of kings and Lord of lords vers. 16. We come now to Rev. 20.1 we have presented unto us an Angel coming down from Heaven having the Key of the bottomless pit whether Christ be meant here by this Angel or no I shall leave that to the judicious Reader with his meditations upon Rev. 1.18 where Christ faith I have the Keys of Hell and Death now this Angel layeth hold on the Dragon which is Satan and bindes him a Thousand years and he is cast into the bottomless pit with a Seal upon him Some there are that do imagine that this thousand years was in the time of Constantine but I see no ground for the truth of it for when he shall be bound the Nations shall not be deceived with any false worship as ever hitherto they have been since the man of sin that son of perdition hath been up and that he was loosed in the time of wicked Hildebrand a Necromancer but the words here in the 3. vers. faith That after his binding he must be loosed for a little season now the wise man faith There is a time a season for everything and if the time since in the Scriptural Account can be lookt upon as a little season yet where hath Satans work been For I believe that Satan is yet at his first work in being a lying Spirit in the mouthes of false Prophets and so deceiving the Nations in the things of God and of Christ and carrying on the Mystery of Iniquity and at this work he is new very busie labouring to pervert Foundation-truths by sinful suggestions into our hearts I know it by mine own experience for he hath been very much labouring to blind my understanding and judgement in a foundation-truth but O for ever blessed he that faithful High Priest the Lord Jesus Christ who knowing all his plots hath still kept my Faith running out upon his word with an answering It is written But now his last work that we read he shall do is to gather the nations against this beloved City to their final destruction he is no sconer out of prison but he goes to his work and loseth no time it is said that he went out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth Why it is reported by writers that Jerusalem is in the midst of the earth and so in this sence Christ will rule in the midst of his enemies as it may truly be said when Christ taketh possession of any heart why there is flesh and sin and the world I but Christ he is King he keeps his Throne and will at length bring them down under his seat though for a time for ends best known unto the Lord they may have their lurking corners in the soul Now when Satan had cathered them together the next news that we finde is their general destruction by fire which I believe is the general destruction of the whole world with all things that are therein Heaven and earth shall pass away faith Christ but not one tittle of my word until all be fulfilled for I finde that the general Judgement of the righteous and the wicked it followeth afterward and then shall those wicked ones who were in that last Conspiracie against Christ and his people and so filled up the measure of the sins of all the Serpents seed that went before them be condemned before his Tribunal for the book shall be opened and every one shall be judged according to his works But before this Throne and Judgement of Christ upon this white Throne by himself particularly spoken of in vers. 11. we have divers Thrones spoken of in the fourth verse And judgement was given unto them who had
Jacob and his seed shall be in many waters and his King shall be higher then Agag and his Kingdom shall be exalted Jesus Christ shall be higher then all the Agags and Nimrods and Potentates of the Earth For he is the great and onely Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords 1 Tim. 6.15 Moses also did by faith perceive what God would do for his Israel in the last dayes as you may see in Deut. 33.26 27 28 29. Hannah in her sweet song of deliverance prophesies of Christ and of his Kingdom 1 Sam. 2.10 The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces out of heaven shall he thunder upon them the Lord shall judge the ends of the Earth and he shall give strength unto his King and exalt the horn of his anointed Mark friends the Exaltation of Christ it lieth in the destruction of his implacable enemies Ps. 110.1 The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou at my right hand untill I make thine Enemies thy footstool he shall give strength unto his King Jesus Christ is the King of Gods own appointment a King that God hath given unto his subjects Isa. 9.6 7. For unto us a Childe is born unto us a Son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his Nme shall be called Wonderful Counseller The mighty God The everlasting Father The Prince of peace Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end upon the Throne of David and upon his Kingdom to order it and to stablish it with Judgement and Justice from henceforth even for ever The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this That same Jesus that is the King of his Saints and people that Jesus shall also be the King over all the Nations Rev. 3.21 To him that overcometh will I give to sit with me on my Throne even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father on his Throne So that here you may see that Jesus Christ hath a Throne which he calls more properly his Throne Now what this overcomer shall do you may see in Rev. 2.26 27. To him will I give power over the Nations agreeing with that Parable that Christ spake of concerning the Lord and his servants to him that had gained ten Talents his Lord saith Be thou ruler over ten Cities and to him that had gained five over five But let us a little consider this sweet Prophecie of the ninth of Isaiah Some Expositors have much reasoned whether they should call Isaiah a Prophet or an Evangelist And truly though all these names that are given unto Christ be sulfilled in respect unto his people in the state of Grace for he is the wonderful Counsellour of his people in all straits and difficulties and he is the mighty God for his own arm hath brought salvation and he is the everlasting Father and he is the Prince of peace for Christ onely is a believers peace but it is said He shall be King upon the Throne of David Now ye know that the Throne of David it was in the Land of Judea over the people of the Jews this is the Throne which Jesus Christ shall have Object How can that be for Jerusalem is destroyed Answ. Though it be yet we have the promise of God for it that it shall be again inhabited Zech. 12.6 And Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place even in Jerusalem Yea we finde that at Christs second personal appearance it is said that his feet shall stand upon the Mount of Olives which is before Jerusalem Zech. 14.4 and in the same day you finde that he shall be King over all the earth and there shall be one Lord and his name one in the 9. verse We know also that as Solomon in his succession to the Crown was a sweet Type of Christ so likewise in respect of his peaceable Kingdom and therein Christ shall well be called the Prince of Peace Now it is very much to our purpose to consider with what difficulty Solomon did attain unto the Crown you have the story in the 1. of Kings chap. 1. the whole Chapter is very remarkable you finde that Solomons mother in the 17. verse comes unto King David and she said unto him My Lord thou swarest by the Lord thy God unto thine handmaid saying Assuredly Solomon thy Son shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my Throne the 18. verse and now behold Adonijah reigneth Observe it is the woman that prevailes with David and surely it must be the woman even the Church that must prevail with God for the exaltation of Jesus Christ for she is said to travel with the man-childe in the twelfth of the Revelation and she brings him forth at last in verse 10. Now is come salvation and strength and the Kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ no more accusings then of Satan no no the accuser of the brethren is cast down Now observe how the woman and the Churches and Saints of Christ may agree together in their Petition for as she said My Lord thou swarest that thy Son Solomon should reign so may the Church say Lord thou hast sworn that thy Son Jesus Christ shall reign in the 89th Psalm verse 3 4. Well what follows And now saith she behold Adonijah reigneth This word Behold it is an expression of admiration Behold my servant whom I have chosen speaking of Christ Truely it should be matter of admiration unto the Sons and daughters of Zov that the Lord should have so much patience as to afford the Kings of the earth that time which is allotted unto them but the Lamb shall at last overcome them we finde that when Bathsheba had done then came in also Nathan the Prophet and he comes with the same story certainly the true Prophets of God they will in all generations joyn with the Church in that which concerns the glory of God and hereby we may come to know who are the false Prophets and who are the true The false Prophets they cry up the beast and wonder after the beast but the true Prophets they cry up Jesus Christ and admire at his excellency and are forced to cry out Who would not fear thee O thou King of Nations Jer. 10.7 and as you read in the following Chapters of the miserable end that did follow them that helped to Crown Adonijah so be assured that nothing but misery and destruction will be the end of them that are enemies to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ But as for those mine enemies that would not that I should reign over them bring them hither and slay them before me This will be Christs sentence unto such his enemies at his appearance It is my desire to run through the whole current of Scripture that the Reader may be surnished against all Gainsayers The next Scripture that hints unto this truth is in Job 19 25. For I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he
not worshipped the beast nor his Images and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years but afterwards Christ who is the Elder Brother is sole Judge of all and having finished the Judgement he delivers up all into the hands of God the Father then shall the Saints above what they know now know with admiration that the Son and Father are one and they one in them according to Christs prayer Joh. 17.21 24. Now in order unto their reigning with Christ they must be brought forth by the enjoyment of a Resurrection and this I judge to be the first Resurrection which shall be only of the Saints that sleep in Jesus for the dead in Christ shall rise first according to St. Pauls Doctrine 1 Thes. 4.10 and 1 Corin. 15. Christ the first fruits afterwards they that are Christs at his coming I know there are some that will apply this Resurrection to the Resurrection of the Soul out of the grave of sin and corruption Well I shall not much controvert it but whoever I see so risen I do not question his part in the first Resurrection for it is said Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first Resurrection It doth not speak of sinners but of saints which had not worshipped the Beast neither his Image they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand yeers but the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand yeers were finished Quest But what are the rest of the dead that have not their part in this first Resurrection Answ. We have them set down in Rev. 21.8 and I am sure there is not a Saint amongst them they are the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and whoremongers and Sorcerers and Idolaters and all lyars and where shall all these be why these shall be without for without are dogs and sorcerers Rev. 22.15 without that is without this holy City new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven so that they shall not see that transcendent glory which will be manifested in this City a glimpse of which the Lord even now sometimes lets down into the spirits of his people that so they might with the Apostle groan for the Adoption to wit the Redemption of our bodies yea he witnesseth that the whole Creation groans for this even for the manifestation of the sons of God and they that had received the first fruits of the spirit groaned also O then how shall the saints of the latter dayes that are under the great Promise of the Father groan and travel for the accomplishment of these things And surely such that are in some measure delivered into the beauty and spiritualness and glory of this glory cannot but long and desire to be unclothed that they might be cloathed upon John in this chapter saw a new heaven and a new earth which was prophesied of long before in Isa. 65.17 and there you have a description what this new Heaven and new Earth is in the 18 verse For behold I create Jerusalem a rejoycing and her people a Joy A new heaven indeed when Jerusalem which now is which is in bondage with her children shall rejoyce with that Jerusalem which is above which is free and is the mother of us all which shall come downe from God out of Heaven there shall also be a new Earth for the Divell being bound up there will not be that Enmity in the hearts of Earthly men neither to the Saints nor amongst themselves but according to the Prophesie in Isa. 65. last The Lyon and the Lamb shall lie down together vers. 2. And I saw the holy City new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband John in the time of all this Revelation was in the spirit Rev. 1.10 I was in the spirit on the Lords day and all that was revealed unto him was spiritual from first to last he that readeth let him understand I saw saith he the holy City for nothing that is unholy can enter in flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God It is a City and it is a holy City and certainly this is the City which Abraham by faith looked for while he was a stranger in the Land of Promise Heb. 11.10 For he looked for a city that hath foundations whose builder and maker is God This City hath Foundations as you may see in the fourteenth verse and God is the Builder and Maker of it for it is of his Creation This holy City this new Jerusalem it is said to come down from God out of heaven doth not this plainly demonstrate unto us that the saints shall come down from heaven according as it is written The Lord thy God shall come and all the Saints with him and in Phil. 3.20 For our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for a Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ this is an expectation of Christ from heaven and I see no difference between this expression and that of Christ's I am the true bread which came down from heaven now see in what manner this holy City doth come down and then consider whether it will be any way a disadvantage unto the Saints to come down from heaven for they come as a bride adorned for her husband O blessed Union all the Saints are Christs Bride the whole general Assembly and Church of the first-born whose names are written in heaven they do but make up the Lambs Wife and thus she shall come adorned for her husband that is without sâ—o or wrinkle as will appear if we compare spiritual things with spiritual For here Christ doth by his spirit and word espouse us unto himself 2 Cor. 11.2 O but there is a marriage day Rev. 19.7 and then it shall be granted unto the Bride to be arrayed in fine linen clean and white which is the Righteousness of the Saints Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage-supper of the Lamb Christ he is the Kings son according to Psal. 72 1. and God the Father he will institute a supper for his Sonne which is called The Mariage Supper of the Lamb a Supper that shall begin when all other suppers shall have ended this doth not any way diminish from the souls feeding upon Christ here according unto Christs words My flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed but this is a supper the which all the Saints shall be called unto that they might be married unto Christ who were in this life espoused unto Christ and therefore when ye have the cry at midnight it is said Behold the Bridegroom cometh Christ comes unto his Saints as a Bridegroom in the glory of his Father and of his holy Angels the Saints they meet Christ as the Lambs wife yea as a Bride adorned for the Bridegroom that although he comes at midnight to the ungodly and to the seeming godly foolish Virgins without Christ in the world yet it is the Saints morning-Star
Zeph. 3.14 Sing O daughter of Zion shout O Israel be glad and rejoyce with all the heart O daughter of Ierusalem Now see the reason why The Lord hath taken away thy judgements and then thou shalt not see evil any more O how beautiful upon the Mountains should the feet of such publishers be that would say unto Zion Thy God reigneth Isaiah 52.7 Then shall the Saints of the Lord sing that song which none shall learn but onely those who are redeemed from the earth and from amongst men Rev. 14.4 Then shall Mount Zion sing Zech. 2.10 Sing and rejoyce O daughter of Zion for lo I come and I will dwell in the midst of thee saith the Lord And many nations shall be joyned unto the Lord in that day and shall be my people Verse 12. The Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land and shall chuse Jerusalem again There will be such abundance of light in the latter days that the Nations shall be able to see and to distinguish between the Bride and the Whore the false Church and the true Church the house of God and Babylon that shall be made the Cage of every unclean and filthy bird even when the Gentiles shall come to the light of the Jews which shall be as life from the dead Rom. 11.15 for as sure as ever the Lord hath cast them off so surely will he receive them again but Oh the dreadfull work that the Lord must make in the earth before he shall have accomplished his designes unto his people and for this he hath appointed a day and Oh that Saints and Sinners would take notice of it Mal. 4.1 For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord Agreeing unto this is that Prophesie in Isa. 2.12 For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty and upon every one that is lifted up and he shall be brought low And in vers. 20. In that day a man shall cast his Idols of silver and his Idols of gold which they made to the Moles and to the Bats All which may certifie us of a notable fiery day of Tryal which will come before the great day of Christ And truely here I may justly take up a deep Lamentation in the Consideration of that abundance of pride and wickedness which doth abound not onely amongst the common profane of the world but also amongst Professors themselves this is a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation O how few have kept their first love and such as are in the day of their first Espousals if they be not very watchful will be caried away with the stream amongst Professors that have cooled in their first love certainly therefore it is a time for such as fear the Lord to be thinking upon his dishonoured Name for unto such as fear his Name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing under his wings Thus far there hath been onely treated of this Kingdom from the Old Testament Prophesies I shall come now to some New Testament Scriptures wherein it is as clearly affirmed From Mat. 25.31 it is thus written When the Son of man shall come in his glory then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory and in the 34 verse Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand By the man Christ Jesus the Son of David the Son of Abraham God will judge the world yea and so judge them as he is a King or elâ—e what Kingdom shall he have to deliver up unto God the Father Then cometh the end saith the Apostle when he shall have delivered up the kingdom unto the Father that God may be all in all 1 Cor. 15.23 24 25. Mat. 2.2 Mark 13.26 Luk. 1.32 there God makes a promise unto Mary by the Angel that that child Jesus which was in her womb should sit upon the Throne of his Father David which is to rule and reign over the house of Jacob as it followeth in the 33 vers. And in order unto this he shall so come from Heaven as he ascended up into Heaven Now there is none that will deny this but such as will deny Christ and Scripture too that he did ascend with the same body with which he did arise this is his own testimony of his second coming when he saith Then shall ye see the Son of man coming Act. 1.9 10 11 but until that time the Heavens must receive him which will be the time of the restitution of all things Act. 3.21 2 Tim. 4.1 Paul doth charge Timothy upon the account of the appearing and Kingdom of Christ to be faithful in the work of his Ministry so that Christ as he is King and in his Kingdom shall judge both the quick and the dead but when Christ shall give up this Kingdom unto God the Father wch he shall do 1 Cor. 15. then saith Christ to his Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you before the foundations of the world were laid And thus God the Father shall be all in all the Saints shall come into the Fathers Kingdom Come ye blessed of my Father Luk. 12.32 It is your Fathers good pleasure to give you a kingdom and this is a Kingdom which was prepared for them from before the foundations of the world were laid so that the Saints of God besides that Kingdom that they shall have upon the foundation of the world shall have a Kingdom prepared for them from before the foundation of the world was laid which is a house eternal in the Heavens Amongst the twelve chosen Apostles of Jesus Christ John was the beloved Disciple who lay in the bosom of Christ and therefore he did deeply share in afflictions for Christ and being banished into the Isle of Patmos there he had the glorious things that do belong unto this Kingdom opened unto him it is the Revelation which God the Father gave unto Christ and Christ by his Angel revealed unto John I John saith he in the ninth verse who also am your brother and companion in tribulation and in the kingdom and patience of of us Christ John and the Saints that he did write unto were travelling towards this Kingdom yea and they were in the way too and that was through many tribulations You have in the third verse a blessing pronounced upon him that readeth and they that hear and keep the things which are written in this Prophesie that is keep up the testimony of them and the power of them being manifested in their lives and conversations Now see those sweet Motto's that he gives to Christ in the fifth verse First he is the fathful witness and that in respect of that witness that he did hold forth in the world to his Fithers glory And Secondly in respect of that witness
that infallible signe of day unto them In the third verse And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men Heaven it self will witness unto this truth Behold where-ever we have this word it speaks out something of admiration that his people might know the certainty of that which is promised you have it in Isa. 52.15 Behold my servant shall deal prudently he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high Christ Jesus the Son of the Eternal God though equal with God yet he took upon him the form of a servant My Servant shall be extolled yea and as it follows the kings shall shut their mouthes at him c. It is said of this new Jerusalem in the fourth verse And the kings of the Earth do bring their glory and honour into it In the fourth verse And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away Here are the Saints in their perfect state a sinless state for surely if there shall be no more crying there shall be no more sinning when a Saint sins God will take care to bring him unto Godly sorrow O but this is a state without sorrow Sin is a way of pain but the former things shall be passed away A Saints grief is either first for himself or else secondly for the sins of others why in both these respects sorrow and sighing shall flee away if it be in himself it is from a body of sin a Law in his members warring against the Law of his minde O but this vile body shall be changed and as it is written made like unto his glorious body Secondly sin in others is that which doth often grieve the gracious heart as it tends unto the dishonour of Christ but in this state the Saints shall have no such cause of grief for Christ alone shall be exalted and admired in them that believe I might cite much more in the behalf of this truth from divers other verses in this chapter but I pass by them all unto the last verse And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lye but they which are written in the Lambs book of life though it hath twelve gates of enterance yet at these gates there are twelve Angels There is such a glory of God in the new Jerusalem as would even torment a poor sinner to be in the presence of it as you may see in the eleventh verse As they see not here into that kingdom of grace set up in the heart of a believer which consists in peace and joy in the holy Ghost so they shall not see into that Kingdom of glory that the believer shall be possess'd of and shall be revealed in him No no it is the Saints onely that can give the description of both Psal. 145.10 And thy Saints shall blesse thee they shall speak of the glory of thy Kingdom and talk of thy power to make known unto the Sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious Majesty of his Kingdom I come now to Rev. 22.3 And there shall be no more curse but the Throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it and his servants shall serve Him Vers 4. And they shall see His face and His Name shall be in their foreheads And there shall be no night there and they need no Candle neither light of the Sun for the Lord God giveth them light and they shall reign for ever and ever Such as shall be brought unto this state of glory shall never more know what belongs unto the curse for they being redeemed from the curse of the Law Christ being made a curse for them they shall also be delivered from death into a state of immortality and therefore they are said to reign for ever and ever here the Saints shall see that beatifical vision and be perfected in that glory which in some measure was here revealed in them according as the Apostle saith he revealeth them unto us by his Spirit they shall see his face and his name shall be in their forehead this name is that name which Jesus Christ shall write upon him that overcometh even the name of my God and the name of the Citie of my God which is new Jerusalem which cometh down out of Heaven from my God and I will write upon him my new name witnessed in Rev. 3.12 agreeable unto this is that Prophesie in Isa. 65.5 For the Lord God shall slay thee and call his servants by another name but this in the time of this new Jerusalem state as you may see in vers 17. whereas formerly men blessed themselves in the abundance of their enjoyments there shall be no such Generation here but he that blesseth himself in the earth shall blesse himself in the God of truth and whereas formerly the Land hath mourned because of Oaths now he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth And there shall be no night there and they need no Gandle neither light of the Sun for the Lord God giveth them light and they shall reign for ever and ever It hath been night long enough but now the day shall dawn and the shadow shall flee away and it shall be such a day as night shall never follow it yea such a day as shall not need the light of the Sun if by the Sun we may understand as also by the Moon to be held foâ—â—h unto us the Ordinances of the Gospel in this respect in this respect there will be no need of these because we shall no more see darkly as through a glasse though much glory is so manifested but we shall see him as he is Isa. 60.19 20. Now here I would speak a word unto such who professing themselves to have gone through all and do look upon others as Carnalists Legalists that walk in the practise of Ordinances Certainly if in this state there is no need of these we may safely conclude that untill this state there is need of them and that it is the will of God that his people should walk in them according as it is written in Isaiah Thou meetest him that rejoyceth and worketh righteousnesse and remembreth thee in thy wayes We are so frail and to apt to be taken in the snare of iniquity that we have need to be instructed in many things as the Apostle saith though we know them already and if Satan can but once finde us in that sin of spiritual pride then it is to be feared that he will beguile us as once he beguiled Eve For it is the Lords revealed method to discover himself in love and mercy in and through his own appointments but I would not limit the holy One of Israel neither yet would I set up the Ordinances as to the