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A61692	A short discovery of certain truths of God according as they are revealed through the manifestation of the eternal light of the Son of righteousnesse, which are, a reply against two things in an epistle, and, an answer to certain queries contained in a book, intituled Christian queries, to quaking Christians, subscribed by one J.B. : also queries propounded, to be answered by the authour of the same book, or any other / by John Story.	Story, John, d. 1681.	1664 (1664)	Wing S5753; ESTC R4917	25,813	34

perfecting of the Saints Eph. 4. 12. But as I have already said the Saints which die in the faith shall be saved though they be far short of that excellent state of perfect men in Christ who are witnesses of his fulnesse and stature For some of Gods people die or put off this earthly tabernacle soon after their conversion while they are but even young in the faith and children even babes in the truth of our Lord Jesus Christ yet through faith they are heirs of the promise and by the birth immortal they have a true title to the Kingdome of God though such who are weak in the faith may be so assaulted many times with doubts false fears and temptations of the evil one and in their departure even so strongly beset as the perfect man in Christ is not because all his spiritual enemies are conquered and put in subjection so that he is in rest being perfectly assured when the earthly house of this tabernacle shall be dissolved he hath a house not made with hands 2 Cor. 5. 1. First those Scriptures which exhort to perfection doubtlesse intends perfection it self in the heighth of it as well as in the degrees though the Saints which attains it attain it by degrees as by growing from one degree of grace and strength in Christ unto another as the Psalmist saith They go from strength to strength until every one appears before God in Sion Psal 84. 7. And the Apostle said When he was a child he spake as a child understood as a child and thought as a child but when he became a man he put away childish things 1 Cor. 13. 11. Secondly there is a perfection of sincerity and he that through the faith and power of our Lord Jesus attains this perfection of sincerity ceaseth from all sin and he that in this sincerity or any degree of it believes and walks in obedience to the Gospel is justified through the righteousnesse of our Lord Jesus of which he is an heir through faith 5. Query Whether Jesus Christ did not institute and appoint certain ordinances under the Gospel for his Churches to observe and keep until his coming 1. Did he not institute that ordinance of his Supper and enjoyn his disciples to observe it in remembrance of him Luke 22. 19 20. And 2. is it not recorded of the Primitive Church how they continued this ordinance Acts 2. 46. 3. Why doth the Apostle Paul commend the practice of it to the Church of Corinth and tells them whence he had it for saith he I have received of the Lord that which I delivered unto you and so repeats the manner how it was first instituted 1 Cor. 11. 23. 26. or 4. are these ordinances ce●sed and now out of date if so pray tell us when they first expired hath not himself told us that they should last untill his coming or is he already come and we knew it not if he be it must be onely by his spiritual presence and so he was with the Primitive Church and that in a greater measure then now adayes yet did they continue in all the ordinances of the Gospel Or 5. may we not rather understand his coming to be meant of his second coming spoken of by the Angel at his ascention when he shall come in like manner as he was seen to goe into heaven Acts 1. 10 11. Answ The matter in question is a thing about which there hath been more idolatry and evil practized by the false Christians than any other thing partaining to Christian Religion since the dark and long night of Apostacy that hath overshadowed Christendome which Apostacy was beginning to come in even in the Apostles dayes Oh! when I consider the bloud of Christians which hath been shed about this very thing it doth afflict my very heart and cause my soul to cry alas alas that ever Christians should be so far deluded misled as to shed the bloud one of another about the outward practice of Christianity which are but in comparison to the more weighty matters as the very outward Courts or Suburbs of Christian Religion Christ did institute the breaking of Bread as it is written when our Saviour with his disciples was eating the Passeover a Feast of the Jews pertaining to the ministration of the Law in which was many shadows of good things to come And as they were eating this Passover according to the Law he said unto his Disciples With desire have I desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer for I say unto you I will no more eat thereof till it be fulfilled in the Kingdome of God Luk. 22. 15 16. and as they were eating he took bread and gave thanks and break it and gave it to them saying This is my body which is given for you this doe in remembrance of me likewise he took the Cup after Supper saying This Cup is the new Testament in my bloud which is shed for you Mark 14. 20. Luke 22. 19 20. and by this sign his death who is our Passover was signified or shewed and not onely by the Bread and the Cup but by the Lamb without blemish of which a bone was not to be broken Exod. 12. 46. in which practice they continued unto his coming even so to remember him when they break the Bread and drank the Cup as that thereby they shewed forth his death till he came not eating and drinking damnation unto themselves as those who did and doth break the Bread and drink the Cup unworthily who eats to the lust and drinks to the lust even feeding themselves without fear whose table is not the table of the Lord but the table of Devils at which they are so far from discerning the Lords body and fulnesse which fills all in all that they neither break that Bread in remembrance of him nor to him but even to the lust by which he was crucified and slain but the Disciples who practized this outward sign by which his death was shewn were witnesses of his resurrection and coming again not onely unto but spiritually to dwell in them according to his promise where he saith I will not leave you comfortlesse I will come unto you John 14. 18. in which he eat with them and they with him as he said I will not henceforth drink of the fruit of the Vine untill that day I shall drink it new with you in my fathers Kingdome Mat. 26. 29. and I say unro you I will no more eat thereof untill it be fulfilled in the Kingdome of God but the inward enjoyment of the substance of this outward sign by which was signified the death or sacrifice of Christ the immaculate Lamb of God who is our spiritual Passover that is sacrificed for us is a mystery which by the vulturous eye was never seen as it is fulfilled to the true Disciples in Christ spiritual Kingdome in which our Saviour sups with them and they with him and is no other then

swearing which was fully forbidden in the law of God before but he positively excludes all manner of swearing in the dayes of the Gospel and likewise the Apostle saith James 5. 12. Above all things my brethren swear not neither by Heaven neither by the Earth neither by any other oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay least you fall into condemnation which two testimonies are sufficient to confirme the truth unto all true Christian men that it is in no wise lawfull for them to swear in any case Many more testimonies might be instanced out of the Ecclesiastical histories of the ancient Christians some of whome holding it in no wise lawfull for Christian men to swear suffered death for the profession of Christ a Acts Monuments Vol. 2. fol. 55. Policarpus who as 't is said was John's Disciple b Euseb lib. 6. cap. 4. pag. 98. Basilides a Christian Martyr and the Waldenses whose names are so famous among the reformed Churches and are said immediately to succeed the Apostles being the most ancient and true Protestants professed it to be no way lawfull for a Christian man to swear and the c Acts Monnuments Vol. 1. fol. 527. Plow-man in his prayer and Chrisostome who was Bishop of Constantinople blameth them greatly that brought forth a book to swear upon charging Clarks that in no wise they constrain any body to swear whether they think a man swear true or false saying d Acts Monuments Vol. 2 70. it is a sin to swear well And these forementioned testimonies with many others which might be instanced out of Ecclesiastical histories were given against swearing and though the Apostle saith Heb. 6. 16. That an oath for confirmation amongst men is to them an end of strife yet this doth in no wise justifie or prove swearing lawfull amongst Christians for he speaks that by way of allusion as being the strongest bond in the old time in which the promise was made whereby men could bind themselves to set forth unto believers the certainty of Gods promise being confirmed by such a strong bond as an oath was among men in the old time when the promise was made to Abraham and his seed after him and as for the Apostles saying an oath among men is to them an end of strife I say that did rather allude or relate to what was at any time done for the ending of strife amongst those Hebrews who had not received the Gospel then that any such thing was done or practised amongst those believers to whom he writ his Epistle For if he had instanced any such practice amongst them he should not have said an oath amongst men but an oath amongst you c. Which he did not 13. Query Whether it be not the great duty and concernment of every Christian to plead for and vindicate all such Gospel truths as he hath formerly received and yet believeth and 1. whether a Christian may not earnestly contend for the truth once delivered Jude 3. 2. whether it be not the duty of all Christians with readinss to render an account of his faith to him that asketh him 1 Pet. 3. 15. And 3. whether it be not your concernment to return some satisfactory answer to the Author of these Queries Answ It is a duty of concernment to every child of God both to plead for and vindicate the truth the knowledge of which he hath received of our Lord Jesus Christ by the utmost force of those spiritual weapons or arguments wherewith he is furnished thereunto by the word and counsel of the Lord against all those that may gain say it in doctrine practice or conversation following the example of the Apostles and messengers of the great King The weapons of whose warfar were not carnal neither was their war against the flesh and bloud of men in error but the weapons wherewith they warred were spiritual and mighty through God to the destroying of that spirit of wickedness which leads into error and also to the recovering many out of error who have been captivated in error And they that are furnished with the spiritual wisdome word and power of the Lord God by which many are turned to righteousness they shall shine as the brightness of heaven and as the starrs for ever and ever Lastly it 's the duty of the children of God who in measure experience redemption and sanctification by Christ Jesus to give a reason according to their ability with meekness and fear of that precious hope and faith through which they have or may overcome in the day of tryal and hour of temptation which cometh upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the Earth and that excellent hope and faith in which the Saints are preserved in this day and hour of tryal and through which they shall be purified and made more white that their innocency may shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdome of their Father and which keeps from fainting to the end is of more worth then gold that perisheth and is not to be valued with all created excellencies or compared with any glory of this fading world therefore I may say of the faith and hope of which Christians ought to give a reason as Job did of wisdome man knows not the price thereof neither is it found in the land of the living Having in the love and fear of the Lord returned an answer to I. B. his Queries and therein given some reason and account of our faith and judgement in the things queried it s desired that I. B. may answer these following Queries in the same love that we may know a reason of his faith and judgement concerning the things queried Query 1. WHether Christ by that one act of his death and suffering hath so done away or blotted out the sins of the children of men that the divine justice of his father is so answerd or satisfied thereby that he looks upon men to be in his Son notwithstanding they are yet sinners and accepts them as perfectly righteous in his sight only in and through what Iesus hath done for them by his death upon the Crosse Query 2. Whether God who is the righteous Judge of all the world doth so impute his righteousnesse as to justifie any man upon the earth thereby in the self same capacity as his righteous law in Christ condemns him Query 3. Whether any man upon earth is absolutely acqvitted and freed from sin by virtue of what Christ hath done and suffered without whiles as yet the witnesse of Gods Spirit in his own heart and conscience condemns him Query 4. Whether there is any such thing as that any mans sins are done away past present and to come whiles as yet he doth not cease to commit sin Query 5. And if the eternal God doth impute the righteousnesse of his Son so as to justifie any while they do not yet cease to commit sin why doth he not so unto all seeing