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A88417	England faithfully watcht with, in her wounds: or, Christ as a father sitting up with his children in their swooning state: which is the summe of severall lecvtures painfully preached upon Colossians 1. / By Nicho. Lockyer, M.A. Published according to order.	Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2794; Thomason E321_1; ESTC R200573	432,053	511

more then a Prophet John was a teacher farre beyond all the Prophets before him and therefore said to be aboundantly more then a Prophet but Christ was a teacher farre beyond John farther beyond John then John was beyond any of the Prophets before him and therefore he may well be called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aboundantly more then a Prophet Matth. 11.9 Concerning his Kingly office he is said to be greater then Solomon so I may say concerning his Propheticall office he is greater then John or any Prophet I will demonstrate the superiority of Christs propheticall office Christ doth otherwise receive and otherwise imparts then ever any Prophets or Teachers did Visions were transient to the Prophets the word of the Lord came to them and then went away again Balaam in a trance could see much and then of a sudden saw nothing no more then another man so it was with the greatest Prophets seers and then in the dark again the spirit of the Lord was transient and came and went from one to another That bad man intimateth this truth that I tell you which struck the Prophet and said Which way went the spirit of the Lord from me to thee Vision is an abiding thing in Christ light abideth in the Sunne it doth so to day it doth so to morrow and it doth so for ever Christ seeth much to day as much to morrow and as much to all eternity his eye is not darkned the spirit of the Lord is not accidentally but naturally in him the Sonne lieth in the bosome of the Father No man hath seen God at any time the onely begotten which is in the bosome of the Father he hath revealed him I think these terms of Father and Sonne and bosome they point at the naturalnesse of Christs ability to explicate infinite excellency There is no new thing to Christ under the Sunne no nor above the Sun no new thing to Christ in earth nor in Heaven nor in the bosome of God Christ is never at a losse respecting the knowledge of things above or below present or to come he never needeth instruction from any in this thing or that Who hath instructed him The lamp in the Tabernacles went out and Vision did fail or at least it is conceived so by some of the learned which undertake to interpret these things but the lamp in the true Tabernacle never goeth out nor vision never fails Light dwelleth with him Daniel 2.22 As the spirit dwelleth in the body as the eye dwelleth in the head which confirmeth me more in that which I said before concerning the naturalnesse of Christs abilities Vision to the Prophets was of this or that particular thing The greatest seers were not cunctis oculati seers in all things in some things they knew much and in other things nothing David a great Prophet and a very knowing man yet in some points a beast The greatest Doctours knew but in part skild in this knowledge or that each had their particular eminency But Christ hath all wisdome and all knowledge He is not onely skild in all the wisdome of the Egyptians to use that allusion but he is skild in all the wisdome and learning that is in this world or in any other world In Christ is all wisdome and all knowledge yea all the treasures of these the spring of whatsoever is admired for light and skil amongst the Sonnes of men In him are hid all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge Coloss 2. His eyes runne through the earth so they do Heaven and he masters all he looks upon his understanding is infinite and this without study primo intuitu at the first look There are but few things that lie naked before you you are fain to make a stand at every thing to make understanding but Christ makes a stand at nothing for all things are naked before him that is he looketh upon all and understandeth all presently his beholding of a thing and understanding of it are the same He is quick of understanding saith the Prophet The Lamb opens sealed books and though all dark sayings to every one else yet he readeth and understandeth presently when there was none found to open the book the Lamb could and therefore called Palmoni by Daniel the revealer of secrets Dark things and plain things day and night are all one to him He revealeth deep and secret things he knoweth what is in the darknesse Dan. 2.22 the revelations delivered by John are called the revelations of Christ The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto him c. Revel 1.1 Vision to the Prophets was by a borrowed power their light was not connaturall but supernaturall to them Light is connaturall to the Sonne it is not onely naturall but connaturall my meaning is equally naturall to the Sonne as to the Father The Father and the Sonne are one their power one their wisdome one they are one in hand one in tongue one in vision and sight Christ sees of himself with his own eyes he sees all things and as exquisitely as the Father as exquisitely as he from whom he receives What Christ hath as an officer he hath it not in way of talent interest and inferiority as you have things but he hath it as his own and as his own joyntly and equally with the Father Moses was faithfull as a servant but he as a Sonne in his own house The Church militant here and the Church triumphant above that is to say grace and glory they are all Christs own even as they are his Fathers and if there be any thing beyond these it is Christs own too even as it is Gods own which I think that expression points at where he saith Glorifie me with thine own self with the glory that I had with thee before the world was Grace is as properly Christs own and as fully Christs own as sinne is said to be the devils own when the devil tells a lie he tells it of his own that is he doth that which is naturall to him and that wherein there can be no superiour to him to lie more facilly nor more exquisitely then he So what truth Christ speaks he speaks it of his own that is that wherein he is naturall and not supernaturall and as it were above himself and that wherein he is equally full and paralell to any speaker of it connaturall with any that speaks this language The paralell state of Christ with the Father in point of imparting spirituall things is hinted methinks in that form of speech which the Apostle James useth chap. 1. 18. Of his own will he begat us with the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures Propagation here which speaks all spirituall excellencies is made coaction or conaction in order to the persons of the Trinity that wherein they are joynt and equall and do with one another as two eyes which are convisive seeing together and seeing equally together without

it and require it Reade these words over and over I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren like unto thee and will put my words into his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him And it shall come to passe that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name I will require it of him Deut. 18.18 19. Coloss 1.18 He is the head of the body the Church SOmethings have a generall glory look upon a pearl when you will where you will and it shines and sparkles upon you so doth Christ Christ is looked upon before in reference to the world here in reference to such as are taken out of the world in the former he is looked upon with respect to the creation and here with respect to the Church and in both admired as great and glorious Christ wears a garment without seme a generall glory his working-day suit is all full of pearls Consider Christ under any notion in reference to this world and you consider him in his working suit in his countrey cloaths in his travelling apparell and yet in this shining earth heaven the Church is filled with his glory he is head in the one and in other Christ makes a similitude between the worlds between this and that above there he is all fair and so he is here condition suits as the sunne goes in the same height we and they above can see nothing but a perfection in the sunne that shines upon us and no lesse moves desire amongst us Man hath an exact eye though not an exact heart he will see much ere he will love a little Things must be very clean which you swallow persons must be very complete and without exception which we set over us whatever we be our selves which are to move under them The sunne shines in order to draw and gain Nature is full of art to cavill unlesse things have all glory they have no glory if there be any hole in the coat love goes out and gets gone there but there is none in Christs Criticks must be convinced and then they will stand still and consider perfection makes conviction in the most criticall spirit and till the soul can tell no longer how to take exception at others it will not begin to take exception at it self Use Sinners we proffer you gold that is tried gold that hath no drosse gold that is all gold Look upon Christ under any notion and make exception against him if you can look upon him in reference to his words and he shines in them all look upon Christ in reference to the old creation in reference to the new creation or in reference to heaven and what can you except against him nothing Why do you not love Christ then It must be because you will not or because you cannot Some persons are convinced of the worth of Christ yet maintain motion towards other things as dearer and will do this your will shall hang you the thing which you love better then Christ shall be the gallows Stubborn hearts find no compassion Christ will plead for no man that will not love him although he know him and have other encouragements to draw him on to him My people would none of me and I will none of them Persons which are overmastered with a bad heart and cannot do what they would find mercy from the Lord but others are let alone to live as they will and die in their shame complaining hearts Christ is perfect in glory would you love him Christ shines in the world and he shines in the Church in the Church militant and in the Church triumphant he is great every where would you love him Yes This is accepted Christ accepts according to that you have and out of this smoke shall come a flame Holy desires is Christ conceived in the wombe of the soul do but stay a little time and thou wilt feel the babe leap in the wombe doth it not now O how strongly doth that soul come to love Christ which would love him but cannot Coloss 1.18 He is the head of the body HOw God doth suit things is here considerable such a body and such a head Christ is the head os the body God doth nothing at randome divine dispensations are exactly proportioned one thing is fitted to another and this is the thing I would a little stand on The wayes of the Lord are equall mercy runnes into vessels of mercy I have set my king upon my holy hill of Sion Such a body such a head a holy people have a holy king my people have mine anointed over them I have set my king upon my holy hill The world is full of variety of condition so is divine action shaped every one hath as he is Iron hearts have an iron scepter to order them and hearts of a more noble mettall have a scepter of gold every one hath a suitable offendant Gods way in this world is nothing else but a tracing of man you eat but the fruit of your own way when 't is most bitter A people of wrath have a king in wrath there was dispensation exactly suited This is the carriage of God through out the world he doth not work at randome he squares action to the thing he works about and fits one thing to another I am sent to lost sheep saith the Saviour God directs a Saviour to lost man and a Physitian to sick man and to blind and hardned men which think they see Christ is sent to move in justice to them justice naturally suits all her actions to the subject about which she works as mercy doth I am come for judgemen into the world saith Christ to shape action to person to suit dispensation to condition The Deitie speaks out it self in apt action Some men cannot and others will not understand God in his word such must be dealt with another way men that will not reade words have apt works annexed to explain them Divine action suited to humane renders God as it were visible to men born blind let him that did cut off other limbs have his own cut off and be served just as he hath served others and he will see a righteous God presently which could not see it before and you will have him speak good divinity presently by virtue of such apt action annexed to the word which could not understand a word of divinity before As I have dealt with others so God hath requited me said Adonibezek it is a rare artist that can draw out himself and yet this is naturall to God by words and works together he will draw out himself so plain that any one shall runne and reade him God can cut and hew a block so by line so exact by the line of the word and the manners of men that you or any one else the very block it self shall tell who and what hand did it So God hath requited me

all things to be seen of men A meer professor fails and flats in his noblest action if men observe him not his zeal dies if the breath of men blow it not Come see my zeal c. A meer professor is a Chameleon he lives by the aire of mens mouths he christens his children himself and calls all vertue that he doth Come see my zeal c. And it was but vain-glory a vice and no vertue a stinking weed and no flower They are ugly brats that Hypocrites bring forth no body else can endure to lick them to any beauty and therefore they lick them themselves Come see my zeal Rotten lungs use art to breath sweet they are not troubled when they smell it themselves they only blush when others smell it stinck and therefore use skill to make their breath smell sweet Come see my zeal Integrity hatches good and runs away can scarce own her own children though they run after her a good man cannot tell how to lay hands upon any good action as his but Hypocrisie calls evill good and yet openly appropriates it Come see my zeal If an upright man be any thing or do any thing 't is not he but Christ in him he doth not say come see my zeal or my wisdome but come and see the Wisdome and Life of Christ in me Naked profession is time-serving 't is a Christian squaring his religion to please all sides A meere professor would have all men speake well of him though Christ nor his own conscience doe not which is a wofull thing Woe to your when all men speake well of you i when you so order your religion and course of life as to please all sides though God be displeased Religion is lovely sometimes but not for it selfe some take it up to drive designes and can taste sweetnesse in it no longer then it will conduce to some secular advantage Christ is an abiding sweet where the heart is upright Christ is deare upon the Crosse when torne to pieces deare every limbe every drop of his bloud deare so for ever The way of Christ is more then the strewings of it to a reall Christian all the wealth and all the honour in the world are not so pleasant as one despised and persecuted truth of Christ They are joy'd in the way they remember thee in thy wayes Esa 64.5 They respect the way not the strewings of the way no other strewings but what Christ maketh by his going before them They remember thee in thy wayes i. Christ For he maketh his own wayes sweet to them that simply walke in them Times vary oft and all present new temptations yet one thing is constantly made at in all where profession is reall i to injoy Christ let my soule lie still in the bosome of Christ and move steadily in his wayes and then let times and fortunes change as they will Reall profession pursues realitie in every condition it hunts one hare how many soever crosse the way in which it goes Distraction of times naughtinesse of men make not Christ unpleasant but more precious If the world will frowne O that I could see Christ smile more If truth be slighted O that I could so walke as to live some beautie into it Integritie holds on her way as Solomon saith I tremble to thinke of this generation wee are clouds without water carried as the winde sits that 's Judes description of naked profession When the Parliament prevailes then their wayes are honoured when the King prevailes then his wayes are honour'd when mens persons are honour'd and prosper'd then their religion is honour'd meere profession is a bable a humour any thing nothing a double minde unstable a double mouth sweet and bitter from the same fountaine as the cisterne will best receive that is powred into and this may be the motto of the profession of this time All that hath been formerly said to distinguish in this matter is but one thing and may be plainly rendered thus Naked profession is without internall reformation Spirits can transforme themselves they can speake like Angels and yet abide Devils men can doe much this way Put yee on the Lord Jesus Christ c. The tongue can doe this when the heart hath never a rag upon its backe Their inward parts are very wickednesse There is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a turning and a turning inwardly The Author to the Hebrewes useth the latter word Wee have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence Heb. 12.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and wee were inwardly turned the spirit recoiling as asham'd An internall turning i when the heart is turned as well as the outward man according to that in Malachi The heart of the children shall be turned to the fathers which is reall profession The Temple was the same in the outside in Christs time that it was in the Prophets time before yet he could not own it because the inside was not the same it had a den of theeves in it My Temple hath a better inside saith he and whips out these theeves and overturnes their Tables it shadowes out this that where there is a reall Temple a true Christian the power of all lusts though never so many is overturned in the soule by the power of Christ which worketh in us I will speake no more by way of discovery but let the discovered lay to heart their condition You which are but seeming professors you will be reall persecutors The punishment of one sin hardens to another The proper plague of hypocrisie is searing burned spirits are fit to burne others so they doe in hell 'T was a generation of seared hypocrites which contrived the bloud of Christ are they not such many of them which contrive Christs bloud and torment at this day in the Christian world The crosse wee beare is the wound of friends the enemies which cut our throats are of our owne house of our owne Land and pretend to be of our owne Religion Would not that bloudy Army abroad be accounted Protestants and for Protestant Religion I send you forth as lambes amongst wolves and yet those wolves wore sheep-skins they would be accounted of the seed of Abraham 't is our case and it makes our triall the greater our burthen is heavie but God is lightning it glory be to his name The axe is to the roote of the tree which bare but leaves and they are cut downe apace If this side would but mend as fast as tother side end wee should be a very blessed people quickly The ripest fall first we shall not hang long after if our profession also be found hypocriticall COLOSSIANS 1.20 Through the bloud of his Crosse AS this expression speakes crueltie we pursued it in the last Exercise as it speakes the causalitie of divine friendship I purpose now to handle it Christ hath by his death accomplished the favour of God Having made peace through