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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51292	Discourses on several texts of Scripture by Henry More.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.; Worthington, John, 1618-1671.	1692 (1692)	Wing M2649; ESTC R27512	212,373	520

Regeneration of the inward Spirit to a new life from the very heart And again Col. 3. 9 10 11. Lie not one to another seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds And have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him Where there is neither Greek nor Iew circumcision nor uncircumcision Barbarian Scythian bond nor free but Christ is all and in all This New Creature then is nothing but the Image of God in the Soul of man So witness both these Texts The new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness After God that is according to God or like him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after the image of him that created him This New Creature is the likeness of God And the likeness of God as both these places evidently shew doth consist in Knowledge Righteousness and true Holiness The very same that Plato speaks at once in his Theatetus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To be like God is to become holy just and wise But because most men even the Old Adam in us take themselves to be holy just and wise It will be seasonable here to see what Justice Wisdom and Holiness this is that is in the New Creature And who can tell it so well as he that is it Matth. 5. 21 22. Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time Thou shalt not kill and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment And whosoever shall say to his brother Racha shall be in danger of the council But whosoever shall say Thou fool shall be in danger of hell fire Ver. 27 28. Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time Thou shalt not commit adultery But I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart Ver. 33 34 37. Again ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time Thou shalt not forswear thy self but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths But I say unto you swear not at all But let your communication be yea yea nay nay for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil Ver. 38 39. Ye have heard that it hath been said An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth But I say unto you that ye resist not evil Ver. 43 44. Ye have heard that it hath been said Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy But I say unto you Love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you Behold the exact and unblameable Righteousness that is in the Regenerate Soul far above the doctrine or thoughts of the Pharisees External Righteousness in the Outward man or to be internally just as far as corrupt reason suggests is but filthy raggs in respect of this Righteousness that Christ requires of us and the New Creature doth bring with it once grown up to its due stature in us Let every man examine himself by this rule And as this Iustice is far above I sometime contrary to the Justice of the Natural man for with him to hate his enemy to recompence evil with evil is just so the Holiness is far transcending the Holiness of the Scribes and Pharisees and Zelotical Ceremonialists For all Outward Ceremonies of Time or Place or Gestures or Vestments Rites or Orders they are all but Signs and Shows but the Body is Christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever Lastly that the Natural man phansie not himself wise as who is not of all precious things the most forward to appropriate that to himself that he phansie not himself wise before he be holy and just let him examine his Wisdom in the third Chap. of S. Iames's Ep. Ver. 13 14 15 16 17. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge amongst you let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lie not against the truth This wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual devilish For where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work But the wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisie The Righteousness then of the New Creature is a Righteousness far above the Letter of Moses's Law though exactly performed It s Holiness more resplendent than the Robe of Aaron and all his Priest-like Attire or whatsoever Ceremonies else God hath instituted or Man invented It s Wisdom far above all the thin-beaten subtleties of the disputacious Schools without contention or bitter contradiction And they that walk according to this rule This upright rule of everlasting Righteousness Peace be on them and mercy and upon the Israel of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Peace be on them or Peace is on them For the Verb is not exprest in the Greek Peace certainly is on them they having obtained the true Righteousness whose very Essence is Peace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Peace of the Soul as the Pythagoreans have well defined it And how can there not but be Peace when they that cause tumult and rebellion in the Soul are dead Pride is dead Covetousness is dead Anger is dead Malice Hatred and Envy and Lust all dead and buried in the true Christian Baptism None left now but Reasons Liege Subjects The whole man now is but an Habitation of the Deity the Temple of God an Instrument for the Holy Ghost to work his Will by This is the Kingdom of God in us the Kingdom of Peace and Righteousness the Kingdom of Joy and Triumph in the Holy Ghost This is the Rule of Christ in us who is the Prince of Peace And they that are thus guided and ruled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Peace on them The inward Peace is on them they are at Peace with God and their own Conscience And God give them also Peace with men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let no man molest me let no man trouble me for I bear in my Body the marks of the Lord Iesus saith S. Paul in the following Verse The Apostles desire is but equal For why should any man afflict this peaceable generation of men Certainly it is either out of Ignorance or Malice whosoever do it Pray rather even for the outward Peace of this true Ierusalem They shall prosper that love thee For these indeed are the true Inhabitants of Salem whose Head or King is Melchizedek King of Righteousness and therefore King of Salem that is King of Peace This is as the Text doth plainly speak The Israel of