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A33370	A paradisical dialogue betwixt faith and reason disputing the high mysterious secrets of eternity, the like never extant in our revelation. As touching God in eternity, how he became time in flesh, and how he dyed in the grave, and ascended to his glory again. Also what the angels are in form and nature, and how the angel became a devil, and that devil man; and that this world was prepared for the devil, so this the devils kingdom; and what the soul is, with the place of its glory and torment. With a brief narration what a commission is, and how many commissions there are; what the difference of their worships, and how that the law was given to the devil; with a brief discourse on the catechism, the Lords Prayer, and the creeds; as also, a divine prospect to the elect of the Lord. Written by Law. Claxton, the onely true bishop and faithful messenger of Christ Jesus, creator of heaven and earth.	Claxton, Laurence, 1615-1667.	1660 (1660)	Wing C4581; ESTC R215220	88,691	122

a word and a stab when as the Jew Devil is subject to the Law he is reasonable in that he will moderately try the innocent by the Law so that God saw good the Devils should have a Law to curb them yea torment them and condemn them for ever Now the rule that the Seed of Faith doth walk by is not by the Law but by Faith as it is written The Law of faith hath freed us from the Law of sin and death though most of Rom. 8. 2. thy Seed do conclude themselves believers yet I say that freedom onely belongs to a Commission and the believers thereof as the Apostle includes all believers with him are free from the Law and none other For Chr●st is the end of Rom. 10. 4. the Law for righteousness to every ●one that believeth And what though I have been a great sinner yea so great murther excepted that there was few beyond me yet now being washed sanctified yea justified that I am now no longer under the Law but under Grace which none of thy ●eed shall ever attain too notwithstanding they seek it with tears Reason What then do all believyrs of thy Commission keep the Law and not any of the seven Churches keep the Law as well as thou What then dost thou say of the Quakers and many others that are very moderate just men insomuch that none can tax them with the breach of any of the ten Commandments Faith I say in the experience of my Revelation there is not any keeps the Law but those that are freed from the Law as aforesaid and sure I am there is none in the perfect Law of Liberty but the Seed of the Woman which Seed of Faith doth run in the line of one Commission to another so that I can speak for no more then I finde in the publique profession thereof not denying but there may be here one and there one scattered up and down which if the report of our Commission came but to the hearing of their ear they would embrace it as the rest of our believers do But truly I speak it there are so few known and not known that there is not a hundred to ten millions of the contrary Seed that will or can believe the report of a Commissioner as touching the true God and therefore we may say with the Prophet Who hath believed our report or to whom is the Isa 43. 1. Arm of the Lord revealed that is the arm of Faith revealed So few there was in every Commission that they were but a little yea and that a very little flock in comparison of the non-commissionate Churches And whereas thou supposeth by the moderate carriage and just dealing betwixt man and man the Quakers with many other of thy Priesthood generation may keep the Law as well as the believer of a Commission I shall moderately answer thee in that saying of James That whosoever shall keep the whole Law and Jam 2. 10. yet offend in one point is guil●y of all So that I say though the Quake●s of all the seven Churches do nearest keep the Law yet in that they offend in the first command they are guilty of all for it is written Thou shalt have no other Gods Exo. 20. 3. but me Now as aforesaid thou hast heard me in the first and second Chapters that there is none of your seven Churches Sons of Generations but you have other gods besides Christ the one●y God some of you saying God is a Spirit without form and this Spirit God is within you and others of you will have no God but Nature onely and the rest of thy B●b●lonish brood will have one Spirit to have three persons So that from the knowledge of the true God I tell you all are guilty of the Law though I acknowledge the Quakers exact walking and therefore I love them yet in that they are ignorant of the knowledge of the true God which is life Eternal I say your Directories forms of Prayer the Creed Baptism breaking of Bread and set days of Fasts and Thanksgiving and such like stuff are not onely a breach of the first but second Commandment all which have a form of godliness but not the power So that I say they are no less then Idols and graven Images of thy own invention and therefore it matters not though some of you keep all the rest of the Commands and not know the true God thou art guilty of all Reason Then if a man come to the knowledge of the true God that is sufficient notwithstanding he break all the rest of the Commands because thou saith Thet keeping of all the rest is nothing without he know that God which thou hast revealed Faith However it is thy pleasure to misconstrue me in that thou knowest not the indwelling of truth in me yet this is the thing I said unto thee That though any of thy Seed keep all the Commands but the first in that they keep not all they are guilty of all for this I knovv the knovvledge of the true God leads forth a soul to keep all the Commandments of God for in that I knovv him therefore I love him and so keep his Commandments as it is vvritten If ye love me keep my Commandments Reason What then dost not thou sin because thou knovvest the true God and keeps his Commands then I must say thou art more righteous and perfect then any man upon earth for it is vvritten If we say that we have no sin we 1 John 8. deceive our selves and the truth is not in us vvith such like places Faith Let me tell thee if I sin I do not keep the Lavv as it is vvritten Whosoever commiteth sin transgresseth the 1 Joh. 3 4. Law for sin is the transgression of the Law But in that I have knovvn the true God vvhich Seed of God remaining in me I cannot sin because I am partaker of the Divine Nature of God Now if I should say that I have no motion● to sin I should deceive my self and the truth is not in me for I knovv there is a great difference betvvixt a motion and an act for it is to be understood not he that thinketh a sin but he that committeth sin is of the Devil as all thy Seed are at a loss as touching the mysterie of this secret not understanding a motion from an act and therefore thousands of thy Seed perish for want of knovvledge in that saying of Christ That whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart Mat. 5. 28. from hence concluding that if thou dost but lust after her thou mightst as vvell lie vvith her and soo too too many of thy seed do commit the act indeed vvhen if thou hadst a discerning betvvixt a thought and an act thou hadst not defiled thy soul as it is vvri ten When lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin when

Reason Seeing the Serpent before he tempted Eve was called A Tree of knowledge of good and evil surely then that good was not cursed but the evil onely and on the contrary Eve partaking in her womb of the evil seed must be evil also Faith Though the Angel had been a Tree in his first estate which knew nothing but good before Eve or Adam had any sensible beings yet being fallen from his created purity he was become a Tree of sin or evil onely So that he was a cursed out-cast Tree from the glorious presence of life Eternal before his visible appearing unto Eve so that he was far from repenting of rebellion against God yea altogether uncapable of reproof of sin whereby he might be restored from his wretched estate that he did utterly abhor both God and man unless he might be Ruler over them when on the contrary Eve through temptation was overcome by the Serpent yet she had some relenting light of life left in her after her rebellion which occasioned a secret shame and confusion of Soul in her so that she was capable of being made a good Tree again yea a Tree of more transcendent glory than she was before Reason By this I understand that the Seed of the Woman and the seed of the Angel were two contrary seeds then tell me whether the Seed of the Woman was before or in his fall and the Seed of the Woman blessed before or after his fall Faith That there is two Seeds or Trees of Eternal life thou maist read A good Tree cannot bring forth evil fruit nor can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit therefore by their fruits they are known So that the Serpent angelical tree being reprobate to all manner of evil therefore he and his seed of men and women vvere not onely cursed in the vvomb of Eve but also before the world vvas but on the contrary innocent Eve being a good Tree in her creation through her proceeding from the Divine Nature of the Tree of Eternal glory so that it vvas impossible that she and Adam or any of their Seed should eternally peris●● because they vvere Trees Elected to bring forth good fruit unto everlasting life and glory long before the creating of this vvorld Reason Hovvever thou seems to prove that it was no natural Tree so no natural apple then vvhat dost thou say to those sayings vvhere he is called A Serpent and cursed above all cattel Gen. 3. and every beast of the field upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eat all the dayes of thy life So if it vvere not a natural Serpent that tempted Eve Why then doth not Cain and all his seed being as thou sayest of the Serpentine nature yet men and vvomen I say why do not those men go upon their belly and lick up dust vvhile they live in this vvorld Faith Hovvever thou or all thy seed vainly dream of Apples pulled from vvoodden trees or of a natural Serpent or an evil spirit in the body of an ignorant horned beast or any such like imaginary fancy concerning the deceiving of Eve yet I having the Spirit of Revelation do knovv that the Serpent vvhich beguiled Eve vvas that Angelical Reprobate cast dovvn from the Kingdom of glory also I knovv that the Serpentine Angel deceived Eve not upon a natural account but a spiritual account in that she vvas ignorant of lusting after a man until she had obeyed the Serpents voice Novv vvhen the curse vvas denounced upon the Serpent and his seed that Angelical Serpent vvas not vvithout but vvithin the vvomb of Eve as aforesaid and he vvas called a Serpent because of his exceeding subtility Novv if it had been a natural Serpent vvithout her vvhat prejudice had the tenour of that curse been to Eve or Adam It vvas as good to him to eat of the fruit of the Tree as the choicest things that one being as natural to him as to the other and also what dammage had it been to the woman for to curse a natural serpent without her or suppose that curse had been denounced against an evil spirit distinct from the soul and body of Eve what harm would that have been to Adam and Eve or their generation or who should regard a Curse upon any devil in the least so that he himself be not that evil spirit or devil so cursed and who is it but that serpentine nature the devil that goeth upon their belly and lick up the dust of this world is it not that unclean reason and wicked imagination that was in Cain and now is in all his angels who are the lords of this earth or god of this world whose spirits wholly thirst after things that perish and are never in their proper center but when they are licking that is feeding upon gold and silver riches and honor of this world which is no more then the dust of the earth which the fair Ladies and rich men of the world lick up all the days of their life Reason Suppose it should be granted that that serpent by whom Eve was beguiled was none of the trees of this creation or an evil spirit in the body of a natural serpent as by me is believed but it was an absolute serpent devil as before hath been related by thee and that it entered into Eve and in her womb was pronounced cursed by the Creator and so naturally brought forth himself a cursed Cain of her seed what was this unto Eve or why should she suffer any kinde of punishment for being overcome by an enemy that was too mighty for her Reason Though the soul of Eve was not onely purely created in its kinde like unto other creatures but it was also of the very same nature of his most glorious spirit that formed it so that she could not be ignorant in the least that all obedience was most due unto her Creators command also the Creator by his royal will for the manifestation of his glorious power might give his creature a spiritual law yea life and light in its self and yet reserve to himself the prerogative power of it so that the Creator might present unto the view of his image a serpent devil for the trial of his workmanship and yet might upon pain of death forbid his creature for having to do with that tree or of hearkning to it in the least also I know the divine Creator might leave his divine image unto his present strength through which by a subtile enemy she might be tempted and overcome to commit evil with the angel against its Creators law and yet its sin be upon its own head and that because it rebelled not onely against its divine light but principally because their was no law to bind an infinite Majesty to protect Eve in her created purity and whether her enemy was too potent for her that was hid from her eyes by the unsearchable wisdom of the Creator so that seeing the wonderful wisdom

Christ these many hundred years since v●ere not the Scripture vvritten for our learning and if the Scripture do not belong to all then also the Lavv is void and belongs to none so then none vvould be condemned as it is vvritten I had not known sin but by the Law and the Lavv makes sin exceeding sinful so that if the Scripture do not belong to us then vve are freed from the Lavv so then for all thy curse I shall be as happy as thou Faith In this last ansvver I shall finish my discourse as touching the truth and variety of these three Commissions in that I have already so infallibly treated of them in the first Chapter of the Quakers Downfal I shall no longer demur vvith thee upon this but shall divide the heads of thy Question into these particulars and so exactly answer them as they lie in order 1. That thou bel●eves the Apostles Commission is to continue to the ●nd of this World 2. That though all the Commissioners vvere dead that had power to invest another yet thou having the same Spirit though as thou saith not the same measure yet thou believest thou mayest pray preach and baptize from the letter as they did 3. Thou sayest if ye had not thus done how should the world have come this hundred years to have known God or Christ Hell Heaven or Devil 4. Thou sayest if the Scripture do not belong to thy Seed then the Law doth not belong to thee and so thou concludes all shall be happy as we 1. First I declare That the Apostles Commission was to continue to the end of the World held forth in that Commission for this I know was the condition of thy Fathers the Jews that did as really believe it blasphemy for Christ or the Apostles to p●t an end to the Ceremonial part of the Law as now thou dost that our Commission should put an end to all Formal Worship under the Gospel But however I say unto thee as Christ said to thy Fathers Think not that I am come to destroy the Law and the Prophets I am not come to destroy but fulfil So I am come not to destroy the revealed transactions of the Gospel but to tell thee and thy Seed that as there was to be three Commissions before the end of this World so I know that every Commission is a World in it self and to it self and when the Commissioners dies that commissionate World ends with them otherwise thou mayest call God a lyar to promise he would be with them to the end of this World and many hundred years ago they are all dead and yet this World remains so that as I know the command was to none but them and to hold no longer then the lives of them so I know that the beginning of one Commission here below is the end of another as thou art not ignorant what overturnings here hath been in your Kingdom to the admiration of the inhabitants so are the Commissions of God the beginning of one was the end of another by which the infiniteness of the Divine Revelation in the Person of God is the more admired to behold the seeming contrarieties of these three Commissions that one puts a period to the other as a greater light clouds the use of the other not but the Moon is a true light in her self but living in the light of the Sun we have no need of the light of the Moon So the Apostles light being more glorious then that of the Law therefore no need of the Ceremonial part of the Law So our light being far more glorious then that of the Apostles therefore no need of the formal Worship of the Gospel 2. Secondly seeing the beginning of one Commission was the end of another how then canst thou plead for a succession of the formal Worship in the Gospel after all the Commissioners of the first or second Magnitude were put to death by thy Fathers Now if onely the Apostles had onely been p●t to death yet if Timothy or Titus who were Bishops or Messengers authorized by them had been preserved in the continuance of that Commission they might by the same power have continued the Bishoprick by their imposition of hands up●n another If so the effects thereof would not have produced such blinde Lordly Bishops with lawn sleeves caps tippits and such like fopperies as ever since hath continued so that if thou wert not stone blinde thou mightst all along discern there was no succession considering the Divine Knowledge and poor mean estates of the true Bishops and the Humane knowledge and lordly ragi● of all the false Bishops ever since as it is not many years ago since the Roman Lordly Authority had the whole power in this Nation as in all other places though now of late from that great Monster Bishop the Whore of Babylon there hath sprung six Sons or Generations one from the loyns of another yet each one refined more then his Father as the Episcopal more then the Papist the Presbyter more then that and the Independent more then that and the Baptist more then that and the Ranter more then that and the Quaker more then you all insomuch that the Father hath disowned the childe as the childe now doth the Father and yet the refinest Son of them is but a Formal Worshipper in the Gospel which when the last Son was begotten o● as it is written The last Angel sounded viz. The Quaker then the mysierie of truth was revealed that is our Commission was given by voyce of words from the mouth of the Lord Jesus as Moses and the Apostles were which spiritual Commission of ours doth abolish all formal Worship in the Gospel as the Apostles did the Circumcision with the blood of Bulls and Goats and all such traditional Ceremonies attending the Law and therefore as I am a Bishop or Messenger authorized in the power of my Revelation confirmed by the Commission of this last Witness so being in the height of Revelation with them I say That your Praying Preaching Breaking of Bread or Baptism is now of no more value then Circumcision or the blood of Bulls and Goats was in the Commission of the Apostles which circumstances was of high prize and great value in the days of Moses though not regarded by the Apostles so all formal worship of the Gospel is highly esteemed by thy seed when by our Commission it is forbidden and not regarded as before I have finished my discourse with thee thou shalt hear so that till then have patience that so I may proceed to the third But thirdly thou sayest What should all thy Seed have done had it not been for the Commission of the Apostles As unto this I shall answer thee As the Disciples went all night a fishing and caught nothing so thou hast all thy life time been enquiring after the true God by the light of another and so hast not the knowledge of the true God nor right Devil but

like a sloathful servant hath hid thy talent in the letter of the Apostles so that when death summons thee to give an account of thy Stewardship then thou begins to trim up thy lamp and findes therein no oyl and then cryeth unto the wise Virgins that is the wisdom of faith Give us of your oyl for our lamps are gone out but then all in vain will thy doleful cries be for the Scriptures cannot help thee nor we cannot help thee and therefore thou must go to thy Prayers thy Preaching and Pharisaical Righteousness to buy thy salvation and they can do thee no good so that now thou mayest see how thou hast deluded ●hy soul with anothers Commission so that now those small hopes of comfort shall be taken from thee which then the Scripture will condemn thee and our Commission keep thee in utter darkness without end But as some of the high flown of thy Seed endued with a notional light above their fellows have replied and said That they will believe no report of man but onely wait upon God for the teachings of his Spirit supposing thereby to finde eternal satisfaction without the revealed report of his Messenger at all and that because they finde a saying to that purpos● as it is written The Anointing which ye have received 1 John 2. 27. of him abideth in you and ye need not any man teach you but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all things and in another place Ye shall not need every man to teach his neighbor for ye shall all know the Lord from the least to the greatest Now there is not any of thy Seed that understande●h these sayings were fulfilled in the days of the Apostles as is confirmed by Peter saying This was that which was o●● 2 27 28. spoken by the Prophet Joel c. that God would send the Comforter which did fill them full of the Holy Ghost as there at large is recorded but however thou canst not believe this yet in Revelation I tell thee That if any such ever finde eternal happiness it must be from the Commissioners of God as from the mouth of Moses they received the Law and by the Prophets the Rulers of Israel heard the Word of the Lord and so in the two Commissions of the Apostles it is written How shall they call on him in whom they Rom. 10. 14 15 16. have not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard a●d how shall they hear without a Preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent So that faith in the true God comes by hearing the report of his true Messengers and without them how shall we ever know or come to God for I infallibly declare That the Messengers of every Commiss●on hath the word of Reconc●liation 2 Cor 5. 19 20. 2 Cor. 2. 14. Salvation or Damnation committed to them as it is written We are Ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us so that we pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God for he maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place So that against all thy Seed I affirm Whoever pretends to wait upon God without the report of his Messengers that are sent by laudable voyce of words they know not the true God nor shall ever see the face of God at all and therefore take notice the onely Messenger of God told thee so Fourthly and lastly I say Though the Scripture doth not belong to thee yet the Law doth onely belong to thee and thy Seed for had it not been for thy Seed of Reason their had been no need of a Law given but because of the enmity of thy Seed against the Seed of the Woman the Law was revealed to Moses and by Moses given to the people of Israel in consideration there was a mixture of Seeds which caused divisions and rebellion against the contrary Seed viz. Moses and that Generation therefore that obedience might be required of them by the grand Commissioners to that end the Law was given to the universal body of Israel that all Israel that was according to the flesh and not the Spirit might be made subject by the Law that so upon their transgression they might receive the penalty of the Law and therefore it is written The Law is not made for a righteous 1 T●m 1. 9 man but for the lawless and diso●edient for the ungodly and such like which none of the Seed of faith once called are guilty of but it is the daily practice of thy Seed Reason the Devil and therefore the Law was given to the Devil which thou mayest read in Chap. 8. recorded at large what his form and nature is how compleat and beautiful how learnedly wise he is in naturals that this is his Kingdom and the Devil the King thereof CHAP. 13. Shewing what the Law is at large and in short and whether any can keep the Law and when he is said to keep the Law and when not Reason THou seemest to affirm That the Law was given to the Seed of Reason which thou all along hath said is the Devil and if there had been no such Seed as Reason there had been no need of a Law by what rule then doth the Seed of Faith walk by if the Law was not given to them as well as to our Seed seeing both Seeds inhabits together and those of that Seed have been as wicked as Reason Faith As before thou hast heard me prove it so now I affirm it That the Law Moral or the ten Commandments was given to none but the Devil that proud majestical Seed the God of this World for I must tell thee if that wise rich Devil had not a curb to bridle them there had been no living for the poor Devil of thy Seed much less for the Seed of Faith to pass quie●ly by thee in the streers were it not the Law doth say Thou shalt not kill thou wouldst murther me for declaring the truth to thee But in that the Law makes Rom 7. 7. sin to be sin yea and that exceeding sinful not onely the Gentile but the Jew Devils also do yea are afraid to execute their cruelty beyond their bounds though many of thy Seed do exceed it yet the moderate Devil is fearful of it saying have a care what ye do to these men as Pila●e said I finde M●t. 27. 19. no fault in him nor no cause of death and so the Law wrought a terror in Pilates wife saying Have thou nothing to do with that just man c. insomuch that Pilate tooke water and washed his hands before the multitude saying I am innocent of 2 Thes 3. 2. the blood of this just person see ye to it and therefore it is written That we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men that live without a Law of which many of the Gentile Devils are guilty of onely

it is finished bringeth forth death Novv Jam. 1. 15. vvhile thy lust is a tempting there comes a good motion and frustrates that temptation by vvhich means that thou hadst intended is not conceived so no sin indeed lust vvas burning in thy heart but in that it came not to perfection the lavv hath quenched the flame for vvhat hath the Lavv to do vvith a heart-adultery no no it is no thought but an act that breaks the Law and what comes not within the bounds of the Lavv be it adultery nay be it murther if it lie onely in the heart and be not acted there can no Lavv condemn thee Reason What is thy thoughts as touching the fourth Commandment as being changed from Saturday to Sunday and vvhat is the reason why this Command vvas changed above all the rest and vvhethe● this Sabbath called The first day of the week is not according to the judgement of the Assembly of Divines to continue to the end of the World vvithout any alteration thereof Faith It matters not me vvhat grounds or principles of Religion your Assembly of Divines holds forth as a Catechi●m to thy Seed for this by Faith I knovv and against men and Angels affirm That as the Commission of Moses ended in the Commission of the Apostles so the Jevvish Sabbath vvith the rites thereof ended in the Sabbath or first day of the vveek of the Apostles then knovv as the Commission of the Apostles ends in ours so vve have povver as the Apostles to erect you a Sabbath suitable to our Commission for knovv this that one Commission is not tied in point of Revelation to observe the former but each Commission according to its title and place hath power in it self to direct you what manner of Sabbath you are to keep therefore observe the Sabbath of Moses Commission was in this nature as followeth viz. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son nor thy daughter thy man servant nor thy maid servant nor thy cattel nor thy stranger that is within thy gate for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it Now this Sabbath thou wilt not own but the First day or Sabbath of the Apostles which hath no such form in it as the Sabbath of the Jews hath And why the Sabbath of the Jews was altered I tell thee in that Christ the onely God by his own power that day had quickned death into life as it is written In the end of the Sabbath as it began to dawn towards Mat. 28. 1 2. the first day of the week came Mary Magdalen and the other Mary to see the Sepulchre and behold there was an earthquake for the Angel of the Lord descended from Heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sate upon it So this being the first day of Christs Resurrection was a day of joy and gladness to the Apostles in that it brought peace and rest to their souls confirmed in their faith that he was Christ the Son of God Whereupon the Revelation of their faith led them forth to keep the first day of their Saviours Triumph over sin hell and death to be a day set apart to assemble together and contribute their benevolence for the refreshment of the poor members of that faith as it is written And upon the first day of the week when the Disciples Act. 20. 7. came together to break bread Paul preached unto them ready to depart on the morrow and continued his speech until midnight also Vpon the first day of the week let every one of you 1 Cor. 16. 2. lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gathering when I come Now this Command being a day set apart in point of Worship therefore as the Commission changed so the Worship changed and so of necessity it will follow that the day must be changed Therefore take notice as this Commission was not to hold to the end of the World no more ought that First day for as I said before every Commission hath power in it self in the vertue of its Revelation to change its Worship suitable to its Commission so a Commission hath power to change a day for that Worship Now our Commission being spiritual doth hold forth no manner or forms of Worship but the worshipping of God in Spirit and truth Therefore I say not onely the Jews Sabbath but also the Apostles First day in our Commission are void and of no effect as it is written He spake on a c●rtain place of Heb. 4. 4. the seventh day on this wise and God did rest the seventh day from all his works So the blessed of the Lord believing Christ to be God the Father Creator of Heaven and earth are entered into the perfect liberty of faith which frees them from the lusts of the flesh and so entered into peace and rest by which not onely the Jews Sabbath nor the Apostles First day but every day is a Sabbath to the Elect of the Lord Now Mat. 12. 1 10. in that the Priests of this World do know that if the first should be as another day then they would lose their hearers and so in conclusion lose their tythes therefore as Christ and the Apostles by the Jews were accused for breaking their Sabbath so the Pharisaical Teachers of thy Seed will condemn us for repealing the First day of the Week But however in the Authority of our Commission I declare That every soul which knoweth Christ in his Form and Nature the Devil in his Form and Nature hath entered unto his eternal Sabbath of perfect rest without end Reason Let me but hear thy judgement as touching that saying of the Lawyer to Christ Master which is the great Commandment in the Law Now Christs answer was That thou shouldst Mat. 22. 36 37 38. love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy minde this is the first and great Commandment Faith And the second is like unto it Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self on these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets Now what manner of love is this with which if we love the Lord and our Neighbour as our self we keep the whole Law but for my part I know not the man that can love his neighbour as himself and so none can truly love God My judgement is That all the ten Commandments are according to the sequel of these words reduced into two heads and these two are comprehended yea fulfilled in this word Love as it is written Owe no man any thing but to Rom. 13. 8 love one another