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A47972 A letter found in Utopia and from thence recommended by a very good hand to the perusal of the publisher wherein (among other things) a candid testimony to Mr. Sterryes learned and accurate Discourse of the freedom of the will lately printed : as also some reflections upon contending and disputing (as of late) about matters of religion : with a postscript to the reader, published to undeceive and quiet the minds of the people / by one that pities th'inscription upon th'Athenian altar. One that pities th'inscription upon th'Athenian altar. 1675 (1675) Wing L1364; ESTC R9510 13,277 33

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that is Isa 25. 6 7. ●en 22. 14. spread over all Nations and a covering cast over all people which is not to be destroyed or swallowed ●K 19. 8. ●a 63. 15. ●sal 26. 8. up but in the Mount of God the Mountain of his Holiness or place where his Honour dwells where he makes us a Feast of fat things of wines on the lees of fat things full of marrow of wines on the lees well refined c. And the truth is let men dream and divine or conjecture what they please to the contrary yet this is very certain That all manner of vails and coverings whatsoever can never be destroyed swallowed up or quite taken away till f the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing Mal. 4. 2. in his wings and freedom of good will upon us But dear loving Sir there is a passage in yours that I do not so well apprehend the meaning of and you will not I hope be offended at my paraphrasing upon it as briefly as I may in order to a right understanding Whereas you say in your Letter That the present time is very dark I suppose you meant it to be so only to those that are in the dark g 2 Cor. 4. 9. whose minds the god of this world hath blinded otherwise to those that h Eph. 5. 8. were sometimes darkness but are now made light in the Lord the present time is as lightsom to them as any that ever was or shall be for if we rightly profess and confess him i Revel 1. 4. that is and was is to come and yet k Heb. 13. 8. yesterday and to day and the same for evermore then we cannot but understand and see plainly that neither Ministrations past nor any that are to come can make any the least change or alteration upon that complete subsistence or being that we have in Him l Eph. 1. 22 23. who is Head over all things unto the Church which is his Body the fulness of him that filleth all in all if we can witness and bear forth this testimony to the world That m 2 Cor. 4. 6 the same God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness in that great early day or morning of the world hath shined into our hearts the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ and if by vertue of this Light we can clearly discern and do know that our GREAT n Job 19. 25. REDEEMER liveth who by o Heb. 10. 14. one Offering hath perfected for ever as many as come by faith unto him So that now we can sing triumphantly with p Exod. 15. 1 20. Job 38 7. Moses and Miriam and all those bright morning Stars and blessed ones of God unto the praise and glory of that one great and good work of his wherein we are q Eph. 2. 10. created in Christ Jesus as having neither superfluity nor defect in it and r Tim 3. 17. that the man of God is thus made perfect and so throughly furnished unto all good works in that one that he must needs stand ſ Col. 4. 12. complete for ever in all the whole mind and counsel and will of our Heavenly Father If these things be known to us and believed on by us how then comes it to pass that we are so mightily troubled molested or disquieted about all that darkness and weakness and want and imperfection that we find to be in our selves and that the thoughts hereof do frequently make us so exceeding wretched and miserable since all these things or Privations rather are familiarly known among Believers to be so disposed and ordered by the wisdom of the Almighty as to become the sole Inlets or Entrance into all that Light and Strength and Beauty and Glory and fulness of Sufficiencie that is only to be found in God alone in that way of t Col. 1. 19. Christ eternally and no where else besides And in that Day that great day of the Lord wherein these things are thus made manifest finished or done for us and in us u Zach. 12. 8. He that is feeblest in Jerusalem shall be as David w Psal 2. 6. a King x 78. 72. a Leader y 1 Sam. 18. 7. a valiant man z 2 Sam. 23. 1. a sweet singer in Israel and the house of David as God or as the Mighties for so the word is plural and as the Angel of the Lord before Them and since every one of these is now as the Angel or Messenger of the Lord before the rest of the Congregation or as the Angel of the Lord before Him so it may also be read that is a Messenger or Embassador like his Servant a Luke 3. 2 4 5. Mal. 3. 1. Mat. 11. 10. John to prepare or made ready his way before him it being the Angel or Messenger of the Lord and he only that rightly knows understands how to bring down every high Mountain and how to lift up every low valley and to make this an high-way for the Royalty of our King to pass upon in the wilderness And this is that real Glory now that the world can neither give receive or take away And yet b Psal 149. 9. this Honour have all his Saints Praise we the Lord. Having thus settled the main and that which in the love and distinct knowledge of it is of infinite consequence and concernment to the Souls of men In the next place Sir yours mentions the name of one that I have not heard of a long time before that is Mr. W. L. * Who congratulates you say my return from Diogenes his Tub c. There are so many years elapsed since I had any report either from or concerning him till now that I began to think and was ready to conclude that either some disease or some sad casualty or other incident to mankind might have carried him quite away from us and lodged him in the Grave but now I perceive by yours he is alive still and lately come forth upon me with A Tale of a Tub and because it seems he was not willing to give himself any more trouble he took I suppose what came next Diogenes his Tub rehearsed and transposed hand or what first fell upon his mind in order to the business and so puts me into Diogenes his Tub as the fittest Receptacle or hiding place for me in his own private judgment Now Sir as to this knowing him to be an c Levit. 19. 32. old man 1 Sam 2. 32 that I speak of and d Job 42. 17 full of days and that the infirmities of Age cannot chuse but be either more or less upon him possibly at some times or in some cases he may not have his e Heb. 5. 14. senses so well exercised as they should be however having been an intimate familiar friend and one