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A86560	A caveat to all true Christians against the spreadings of the spirit of Antichrist, and his subtile endeavours to draw men from Jesus Christ / propounded to them by J. Horn, one of the unworthiest of Christs servants in his gospel, a preacher thereof in South Lin, Norfolk ; together with some brief directions for their orderly walkings.	Horn, John, 1614-1676.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1651 (1651)	Wing H2796; ESTC R42677	162,184	341

us to have our senses more exercised that we may descry their deceits and discover their pervertings of the Scriptures of which thing also I desire you to be careful that they may not seem to beat you with your own weapons for even they that make no account of the Scriptures will catch at here and there a saying and wrest it against the truth delivered in Scripture so I have met with some to give thee some instances hereof and indeavour thy help herein who against that in 1 Tim. 2.6 that Christ gave himself a ransome for All have alledged that in Isai 51.10.11 That the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Sion with singing and thence argued that Christ gave not himself a ransome for All because all shall not do so insinuating a conclusion directly contradictory to the Apostles Doctrine now in such cases thou art to hold fast the Divine Testimony for truth and though thou art not able to detect the way of their sophistical arguing no more then the way of a Serpent upon a rock Prov. 30 19 yet thou art certainly to hold fast that its a fallacious way of reasoning that men use in such conclusions drawing as in which they set Scriptures together by the ears that are not cross to each other in their plain sayings as its evident there is no more opposition between those two Scriptures before mentioned then between these two God is the Saviour of all men 1 Tim. 4.10 and that The Nations of the saved shall walk in the light of the new Jerusalem Rev. 21.24 Or that Happy ●…t thou O Israel a people saved by the Lord or then is between these two All that are in their graves shall come forth some to the resurrection of life and some to the resurrection of condemnation Joh. 5.29 and that Luke 20.35 They that are accounted worthy to obtain the Resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage neither can they die any more but are equal to the Angels and are the children of God c. And such places are to be cleared to be both true by distinguishing betwixt the things spoken of in them for they speak not ad idem or to the same thing though they use the same kinde of word in either of them as for example That phrase The Redeemed of the Lord in Isai 51.11 is not so general as that in 1 Tim. 2 6. nor doth it reach to all that at any time or in any way are redeemed by him for he redeemed Israel out of Egypt and yet all thence redeemed or ransomed went not to Sion nor shall have everlasting joy and gladness for many of them were unbelievers The ransomed of the Lord in Isai 51. are the stock of Abraham and Sarah ver 2. that are gone into great bondage and shall be brought out again by the hand of the Lord awakned and putting forth its strength and power as in the dayes of old when he brought them out of Egypt it speaks of a redeeming by power and strong hand and a setting free from the yoke of oppression that lay upon them from men and it may be applied further to those that by the like putting forth of glorious power and spirit are brought out from under thraldom to corruption and Satan and from Antichristian slavery as in Rev. 14.1.4 That are redeemed from the earth freed by the efficacy of the Blood and Spirit of Christ in their consciences from earthly affections and from men that is from their tyrannizing over them or they being tied and bound up to men for something in them as men to admire serve and take up their faith and worship by the wills of them such shall go to Sion and sing the song of the Lamb too but that in 1 Tim. 2.6 where it s said Christ gave himself a ransom for all is spoken of as a thing done in Christ and not upon or in men a thing to be declared to men even to the Declaration of which to all Nations to the utmost of his power Paul was ordained that in hearing and believing the goodness of God in Christ so declared to them they might submit to God and Christ and receive that further opening of his Love and Truth to them in and by which he might set them free and in that fore mentioned way of power redeem them This speaks of a ransoming by price and bringing them into such a freedom from the sentence of condemnation fore-past upon all in Adam that Christ that notwithstanding may shew what favor he sees good to them afford his bounty patience and Gospel to them as he pleaseth to lead them to repentance and upon their turning further love them In like manner others deal with the precedent verse of 1 Tim. 2. viz. There is one Mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus for endeavouring to disprove that we are to look to God by Christ as a Mediator or that the Man Christ is Mediator of God and men they produce and oppose to it that in Gal. 3.20 That a Mediator is not of one but God is one therefore say they Christ is not a Mediator of God as is affirmed 1 Tim. 2.5 and if not of God then not of God and man as is there affirmed also But in the same manner as before art thou to defend thy self against this arguing also viz. hold fast the Divine testimony though thou knowest not how to answer them and know that they deal fallaciously with thee though thou canst not perhaps so plainly tell wherein the fallacy lies with which he would ensnare thee that they oppose as contradictory those things that are not so but very consistent for whereas the Apostle in the Galathians saith That a Mediator is not of one but God is one that is of one mind in both administrations of Law and Gospel and needs none to reconcile himself to himself in his giving of them That of the same Apostle in Timothy rather confirms it then denies it for there is a mediation propounded not of one alone as is the force of the Word One in Gal. 3. but of two distinct parties not as yet fully and compleatly reconciled to each other God and man in which the Man Christ Jesus is affirmed to be imployed as Meditor of them so that these two are both true in their very express sayings and neither of them contradicent to other Again Others to prove that Christ was never otherwise born crucified dead or raised then he is now dayly in the hearts of men and as he was ever from the beginning as also that there shall be no other Resurrection or coming of Christ then is now in and to men in their spirits and always hath been they bring that of Solomon Eccles 1.9 That which hath been that also shall be and what hath been done that shall be done and there is not any new thing under the Sun And that in Chap. 3. 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they are all one in him according to the Spirit however different according to the flesh yea a●cording to the Spirit they are Sion the belove City the Kingdom and Temple of God and b● and his glory appertaineth to them and is the●… portion O Israel happy thou a people saved 〈◊〉 the Lord Glorious things are spoken of thee th● City of God the most high in the midst of thee 〈◊〉 shall exalt and establish thee and delight in th● for ever for this is Sion whom no man regardeth the place and habitation that God hath chosen in which he will dwell and rest for ever because he hath loved and desired it Consider this O ye Saints and let your hearts rejoyce in his that made you in him that called you and made you in Christ Jesus and blessed you in him with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things according as in him he chose you before the worlds foundations and be joyful in your King in Jesus the King of Saints that dwels and rules amongst you and in whom ye are exalted to all this high condition This state of glory and perfection in Christ Jesus given you should be minded by you to out ballance and chear you up against the state of frailty and imperfection experimented in your selves for this like the stone cut out of the Mountains without hands shall dash in pieces and swallow up the other into victory When that state of weakness and mortality shall have overcome you in the flesh yet shall it again be overcome and abolished by this state of glory and shall never more return upon you Surely friends did we more minde this high state to which we are called and in which in Christ Jesus we are interessed it would make us bear chearfully the present sufferings of this life and love him heartily that hath hitherto advanced us It would lead us to contemn things seen and sensible neither to run out in affecting the good or fearing the evil that in the outwward state is met with by us So have the Saints in other times walked trampling upon Death through the hope of Life and the like of hope in them contemning the pleasures of sin for a season for the enjoyment of this eten happy condition and for the love they bear him that thereto called them But I fear we●… often so taken up with the view of what we 〈◊〉 according to the flesh that we forget what 〈◊〉 are in and according to Christ Jesus whi●… springs from what we come to view in the n●… Consideration Sect. 4. Of the state of Saints in a joynt consideration as sons of Adam in Christ FOr though such is the Christians state as Christ and as a Saint yet in a complex joynt consideration as he is a man in Christ the● appears yet a double imperfection beside what named 1. An imperfection of his Union with Chri●… or in the manner and measure of his being him in his rootedness into Christ in whom 〈◊〉 high estate is A branch of a wilde Olive then● taken out and graffed into a true is by ver● of that insition interessed in the juice sap a●… vertue of the true Olive yet the manner of Union with it may for some time be imperfec●… It is not at first so fast rooted and so firmly un●ted with it as afterward it may be Thence th● Apostle prayed for more rootedness of believ●… into Christ and Christ himself for further Union of believers in him Ephes 3.17,18 Joh. 17.21 Saints perfect in Christ may not be perfectly in Christ their condition admits of growth in this matter they may come to see further into Christ and to attain to greater riches of assurance of understanding and so grow stronger in faith and love and have their roots deeplier struck into him cleave to him with fuller purpose and resolution The more they know his Name the more they trust in him and their calling to him and election in him made firmer and they further out of danger of falling from him 2 Pet. 1.5.10 Yea as they grow more one with him so they have a more wide and abundant entrance administred into his Kingdom his fulness flows more out into them and they become more comprehensive of him In this regard is that difference amongst Saints that was ●oted in the beginning Some babes in understanding and weak in faith easilier shaken and perverted from the simplicity in him more unstable being less united with the root and so not so much receiving in its sap and these as they are more tenderly to be dealt with and nursed up so they are also to be exhorted to diligence in attending to the Word of Grace and to let go such evil humors brought with and yet retained by them as might clog them and hinder their further growing in and faster uniting unto Jesus such as those things named 1 Pet 2.1 Malice Envy Guile Hypocrisie c. that so coveting after the sincere milk of the Word they may grow up thereby be more rooted and built up in Christ abound in his Work and be kept from falling Others are more firme grown more empty of themselves and fuller of faith and confidence in him and singleness of heart toward him for whom there is greater cause of rejoycing as being in the less danger of m●ssing the full injoyment of their spiritual estate to which they are called yet even they also may and are still to be growing up into Christ and to faster union with him for which cause also the Saints are compacted into a body that they by what every joynt supplies from the head may grow up more into the head they being not as yet so perfect as that they can grow no more In this regard it was partly that Paul judged himself not perfect nor to have attained but pressed on counting all things loss and dung that he might win Christ and be found in him Phil. 3 8,9,13,14 He had him not enough yet nor was yet so fast in him that nothing in that regard could be added to him as also ●n another sense which follows he with other Saints acknowledged their imperfection viz. 2. In regard of attainment to an injoyment of the fulness of Christ and their estate in Christ through union with him in regard of the possession or comprehension of it and the effects and fruits of it And there are two Branches in that 1. Their injoyment of the fulness into which they are estated their possession of it they have not yet all that joy and happiness that sight of God that vast possession of life in themselves to which they are called they have not yet attained the resurrection of the dead as it is to be injoyed the greatest part of the possession of this estate is reserved till their race be run their fight accomplished the prize obtained 2 Tim. 4.8 Here we have a time of suffering with Christ the glory is for the main of it reserved as to