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A90835	The poor man's mite, unto the more large contributions of the liberal, at this day freely added, in testimony of that respect which is born unto the faithful and their interest, as it's laid up and hid in Jesus. Briefly discovering, 1. The vanity of that rejoycing, which seems to glory in any thing save the Lord. 2. What is required of all that expect to have the form of the Lords house revealed unto them. 3. That however the chief corner-stone may be rejected, none other foundation can no man lay. 4. That as Christ shall appear, so with him shall the interest of the second of new creation, appear with him in glory. 5. A postscript, or additional word to the reader, occasioned by the late revived noise of uniformity, or national conformity to the principles of some men.		1659 (1659)	Wing P2867; Thomason E986_3; ESTC R207764	9,278	15

easy to be discerned and not only the Righteousness of the Righteous shall be discovered but also the hypocrisie of the hypocrite for as the glory of Israel shall break out so will the nakedness of Edom or Esau be made bare Until the farther accomplishment whereof Oh that we may all in a right Spirit rest in the Lord and stay our selves upon our God waiting patiently for him whose coming will be in Judgment to his enemies and in favour to all that love his appearing Post-script SInce the late wanted noise of Uniformity or national uniformity to the principles of some men hath been revived in our Ears It remembred me that when the people were all of one language it 's said they travel'd together until they came into the Land of Shinar where as may be judged they found a pleasant plain and meeting with a place so goodly for habitation said one unto another Come let 's make brick and burn them throughly that we may build us a City or a Tower and leave us a name c. Now when by many of this Nation the several Hills that were risen in it had been passed over and in their travel the great Episcopal Mountain trampled under and levelled with the ground they judg'd the place wherunto they were then come would prove a plain of great fruitfulness and that the tenths thereof would be of great value therefore coveted to make it the place of their continual abode and cared not to follow the Lord any farther but speedily sought how to establish and settle themselves in that state whereunto they had attained so as never to advance one jot towards the Price of a higher calling though it were even said unto them Arise depart that is not your rest but rather hastned to erect some monstrous Tower or great Babel for their defence and that contrivance being blasted by a voyce of noyse and confusion from on high causing the people to scatter abroad and run to and fro through which knowledge is increased in the Earth the artificers rage and are disquieted for that their good old Cause as they call it is not like to prosper And know not how enough to vent themselves but remembring that from the Nobility to the ribaldry of England Popery hath been and still is by most abominated as hellish and Diabolical and the rather amongst all for that they have been so full of bloody cruel and murtherous plots and designs that would at any time have established it as our Nations Religion betake them to a publick upbraiding and charging of others with what themselves are most guilty of viz. the opening a door of entrance for the Pope and his Religion in England I wish the Hierarchy and other the Arrogant usurpations of that Antichristian Bishop were less cherished and upheld in the practice of those men who would have all men to be of their minds but not to be as they are Teachers of the people or Masters in Israel but the dayes hasten when the Lord shall be known to be the Teacher of his people and many that call themselves Ministers now do it because they would be Masters pretend to Christ and set up the Custome of the Jews and by their tradition violate the simplicity of the Gospel lay claim to the maintenance of that Priest-hood whose order and being they are called as they say to preach down and yet are no Priests but Ministers I think so indeed and whose they are and whom they serve every day more then other seems to manifest Now to the ingenuous Reader I leave it to judge which are more like to gratify the interest of Rome or become her false Bishops agent these men who with their national Uniformity would compass Sea and Land to gaine proselytes or people desirous to be found according to the Word of God in a Gospel-separation from the corrupted and beastly generations of the Earth that will not learn Righteousness though they faint in Judgment and for a further discovery of this principle as it hath been offered I refer the Reader to Mr. Deales discourse thereon called Uniformity examined and wish they may henceforward better improve the gifts and parts and learning they boast so much of to a better use then to limit the Holy one of Israel who knows how to call a Fisherman and reject a Rabbi or so much to set themselves to throw down all others as if they were the only ones and wisdome must dye with them but who are so blinde as a people that will not see or deaf as those that will not hear What the effect of their despising the day of small things may be is rather feared then determined and who knows but in the day when it most concerns them having eyes they shal not see and having ears they shall not hear this Judgment is not wished unto them but rather hearts to follow one of their Eminent friends in truth not in hypocrisie to confess that now they are made to know there is a God in Heaven whose so doing some of their greatest Rabbies once said in my hearing would prove worse then a thousand worsters to them So that it may be that the seeming private penitence of a Champion of theirs will be worth the having in publique whether it be done by the Confessor in truth or no. FINIS

THE POOR MAN'S MITE Unto the more large CONTRIBUTIONS of the LIBERAL At this day freely added in Testimony of that respect which is born unto the faithful and their interest as it 's laid up and hid in Jesus BRIEFLY DISCOVERING 1. The vanity of that rejoycing which seems to glory in any thing save the Lord. 2. What is required of all that expect to have the form of the Lords house revealed unto them 3. That however the chief Corner-stone may be rejected none other foundation can no man lay 4. That as Christ shall appear so with him shall the interest of the second or new Creation appear with him in glory 5. A Postscript or Additional word to the Reader occasioned by the a late revived noise of Uniformity or national Conformity to the principles of some men London Printed for Livewell Chapman at the Crown in Popes-Head-Alley 1659. THE POOR MAN'S MITE SINCE the late wonderful appearance of wisdome and power from on high bringing down the haughtyness of insulting arrogant flesh presenting to view the secret devouring Contrivances of the old enemy which under a new name and pretence of doing the good formerly left undone the more covertly intended the accomplishment of the things they would have done So many have been the valuable and worthy Testimonies of the faithful that are gone before me That at this time my self of all others had least encouragement to contribute my mite And were it not that a more then ordinary sence of the vanity that may be written upon man as man in his very best Estate and of the unwearied endeavours of the great adversary of Light and Truth to obstruct its dawnings and breakings forth upon the Children of men is stir'd up in my heart I should have been altogether silent but for that from both these to wit the vanity of man and the continued dispight of the enemy no less then occasions of Godly jealousy if not of fears and doubts is administred to both the youthy and the more aged Christian though I confess the same with exceeding weariness of minde and meekness of spirit ought to have its entertainment even in the very thoughts of a man I am as one in some degree awakened and made willing in tenderness and faithfulness of heart at this time to offer a few things to the serious consideration of the faithful with whom though I seek not for what may gratify a carnal interest cannot but hope to finde at least a tincture of that heavenly Spirit of love which rather helps to improve then reject the smallest appearance of true love and respect to them and their everlasting concerns though it proceed from one of the meanest of all their Fathers family The first thing offered is That of God is Christ made unto his people Wisdome Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption to the end that if any would glory they should glory in the Lord. The infinite Father of Wisdom Grace whose name is the Lord and will not give his glory to another foreseeing the evil that would be springing up in the heart of man to the causing of him to turn aside and depart from the living God by an Essay to become Wisdome Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption to its self was therefore pleased in much wisdome Prov. 8. to place the Fountain of all durable Wisdome Riches and Righteousness in his Son as a life occult or hid with him to whom the name of a Redeemer belongs in whose presence every knee shall bow or smite together and every tongue confess to God that this is He in whom all fulness dwells From whence proceeds a loud voyce of admonition and caution unto all the Children of men to be careful lest at any time they should be tempted to depart from the Fountain of living waters and hew out to themselves Cisterns yea broken Cisterns that can hold no water which two are evils commonly committed at once for no sooner do men begin to hew out Cisterns to themselves but at the same time they are found departing from the living Spring and Fountain of Life but who are found in the practise thereof seldome escape the evil of their doings know therefore and see O all ye inhabitans of this Isle That it is an evil thing and a bitter to forsake the Lord. For the evil of our own distrustful imaginations will corect us our backslidings shall reprove us for what hath the Redeemed to do in the way of Egypt or Assyria or with the waters of Shihor to drink in the shallow corrupted streams thereof Is not the Fountain opened whereunto all that thirst may come and he that hath no mony nor price may come and receive freely of that fullness which is to make him fruitful in a dry Land But Poor man having lost his first image wherein he was created as in a posture meet to receive a more lasting and durable comelyness from God had he with patience waited for the bringing forth thereof though he be not Ignorant of his present depravity and from whence he is fallen yet such is the pride of his heart that finding no price in himself that will render him acceptable rather chuseth to trust to and live upon the petty waterings of some borrowed accomplishment then give the least reception to the water of Life because it 's freely offered which ingrateful and pernicious principle opens the largest door of entrance into the heart of man for the grand opposer of grace and truth as it came by Jesus Christ that is imaginable and is to be lamented as one of the forest evils that can happen to a Nation or People that in the day of their visitation have not hearts to understand nor wills to receive or affect the things that concern their peace and I could be glad that even this were less the sin of this Nation then the many broken Cisterns of late hewed out and found in it seems to declare wherefore it highly concerns us even now ere it be too late whilest we are upon the wheele to cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils and unfainedly to return from the evil of our former wayes and to make our wayes and our doings good lest by our further abuse of the grace and patience of God we at last become as vessels utterly moved or as Jeremies Bottle that having past the tryal of both wheele and furnace being then broken cannot be made whole again 2. That if Israel shall be ashamed of and return from their iniquities the Lord will shew them the form of his house for his Arme is not shortned that it cannot save but our sins separate betwixt our God and us And if after a strict enquiry made for the sin of Israel in the day when the Lord alone had been their wisdome and strength it be found that the thoughts we had of our selves or others who were but instruments not the cause of our deliverances beyond what ought to

have been thought are none of the smallest of our offences how ought all the Lords people though of different judgments and perswasions to be one even in a lamenting this and all other our evills committed against the Lord that yet spareth us as a man spareth his son that serveth him and to be provoking one another to walk answerable to the wonderful mercies conferred upon us least the Lords returning to visit us with favour amongst men be mis improved and by agravating our former disobedience impatience and ingratitude a worse thing happen unto us And now ye honourable ones whom the Lord we hope in mercy to your selves and us hath restored to your former station or places of trust Though it be Judged that you have not wanted remembrances on the Lords behalf at this day yet it s also hoped that it will not be an offence to you especially the truly meekned and humbled ones among you to hear though from a babe that if with full purpose of heart ye resolve to decline the evills of the Times past when men acted partly for God and partly for themselves and become intire and true to the interest of God and the faithful that with him it is to shew you the form of his house who will not only be found amongst you in so doing but in the day when he shall come to make up his Jewels and to enquire for what honour hath been done to Mordecai for his fidelity to the King of Kings he will crown you as wise Master-builders and even now whilest ye are a building if ye keep close to him in your undertakings will enable you to carry on his work against all the Tobias's and Sanballats of this age who doubtless by asmuch as in them lyes will endeavour the hindring and impeding thereof for they love not the prosperity of Zion and every appearance of the new Jerusalem is an offence to them And some of them have been made to own the Lord and his people amongst men yea wicked men who saving their vizards were ravening Wolves and greedy Lions that gaped for the time when the innocent should become their prey But for ever magnified be that name whose mercy is above all his works Daniel is escaped and ye are owned in the day of the Lords appearing thus far to visit and redeem his people Wherefore be it ever remembred as pertinent and besuiting us That when the breaches began to be stopped and the walls of Jerusalem were built the builders and people were much cast down in their own eyes for they perceived that the work was wrought of God at every of whose appearing to work let the fearful and unbelieving learn to become obedient and comply with the pure interest of God and his people in all the degrees arisings and gradations thereof for you will finde its of force enough to work out it self through all the heaps of thick darkness which the Prince of the Aire and Children of disobedience hath this many hundred of years been casting upon it and will surely shelter and all the day long be a covering to those that love and cherish it And who so soares in this Region are in Communion and correspondency with the spiritual and hidden operations of this Interest To such no greater folly is there nor more apparent then the spousing or contracting thereunto the interest of the flesh or wordly power and wisdom as the needful expedient to hasten the work of God among men by joyning together what God would have put asunder which attempts henceforward as Light and Truth riseth higher in the Earth may expect by the wise in heart to be esteemed and accounted of for none other then the fruit of a carnal selfish degenerating principle that will at last evidently demonstrate the Attempters to be Children in whom there is no faith and after a large pretence to serve none other King but Jesus give the World an occasion to say Lo this is the man that made not God his strength Hos 5. When Ephraim saw his wound and Judah his sickness they sent to the Assyrian and to King Jareb but they could not heal them And therefore ye worthy builders whose experience hath out-lived the rise and fall of much of this kinde of doings in England the hopes of the faithful enlightned ones are that your wisdoms will be such as to make a righteous advantage thereof to redeem the time past for the dayes were and are very evil and how little the last five or six years added to the setting up of any thing that 's able or ought to stand notwithstanding the specious pretences made thereunto I leave to all that are concerned to judge who after a general survey of things I fear will hardly finde any thing lifted up that 's more abiding or deserve to be so then an Image of wax that 's either capable of receiving another Impression or in a short time lyable to be thrown to the ground Honoured Sirs though our purpose is not to be tedious yet forasmuch as the concerns of a worldly political Interest leaves you not unpresented with seeming plausible and substantial bottomes to work upon to the intent the chief Corner-stone may be rejected or laid aside it may not therefore be omitted to reminde here That none other foundation can no man lay and prosper then that which is laid which is Jesus Christ and if any as wise Master workmen shall build thereon their works will be tryed and the durable substance thereof revealed and that by fire and accordingly shall the reward of every builder be for by how much the work will not abide the tryal by so much shall the loss of the workman be wherefore in all your undertakings to build be sure to digg deep till you meet with the Rock of ages for your foundations Then you will not need to fear though stormes arise the winde blow the rain descend or though Ashdod Ammon Moab be offended or inraged for the prosperity of the Lords work for the Lord himself hath respect unto it and by his own everlasting arm shall every true Nehemia be preserved and born up The last things offered to the faithful in general are that when Christ who is our Life shall appear we also shall appear with him in glory now we are sons but it doth not appear what we shall be but we know that when he doth appear we shall be like him c. As hereby the purpose of the Lords Servants may be understood to work out from amongst the Saints the evil of an unbelieving heart if by all means possible they might beget in them a lively hope or an ability to hope to the end so they seem to promise the safety of a believers interest as it 's rooted and laid upon a Rock that 's higher then they the which whosoever is made truly to believe and see as with the eye of faith maketh not hast but is ready to wait for

its further comings down upon him or untill the Lord shall say Come up hither and having been as it were in a mount where a more ample and certain view of their Life and interest is given them they cease not to improve the exercise of faith as well when they are commanded to descend as when to ascend knowing he to whom they have committed themselves is God of the valleys as as well as of the hills And for our advantage herein if the first man Adam a living soul and the second as the quickning Spirit or Lord from Heaven be but considered as the two principles or Rocks from whence proceeds to be discerned the nature of both Creations the one as earthly in its best strength and beauty the other as heavenly the same yesterday and to day and for ever it gives a certain kinde of demonstration of things carnal or things Spiritual in their several attainments The first Adam was the root of the first or fleshly Creation and in him the sun of its glory was found as Light gathered up into the body of the Sun and being created as is said In the Image of God typified or prefigured the Son of God that was to be revealed as head unto both and whilest in its estate of simplicity Adam continued living in Communion with God walking in the enjoyment and participation of a Life which had its sole dependance upon him he was in short a glorious piece the map or abridgment of things created both in Heaven and in Earth But all this glory and excellency through the temptation of the Devil and the help created for Adam and the weakness or mutability of that Estate in its own nature leaves God and is drawn away to seek after a life in himself in distinction from that everlasting Life Wisdome and Righteousness which God would have been unto it in the day of his second or next appearance to Adam The second Adam the Lord from Heaven is the Root of all the new Creation which is Created according to God in righteousness in respect of which estate as proceeding from the ancient of dayes and being Rooted and principled in him the most glorious and highest attainment of the former is in the spiritual mans account or him that judgeth all things but earthy and fading A serious contemplation of both these or of the day which Abraham saw afar off and was glad a prospect is opened into the second or new Creations interest as it is laid up and secured in its Root and will according to every season proper to its appearance be breaking forth in the several degrees and parts thereof working mysteriously and effectually through all the devices of Satan and the wisdome of flesh which as a grand competitor constant to it self in all things is very ready to challenge the name or birth-right of a created help that by no mean may be rejected or turn'd off the stage and notwithstanding the right it pleads to copartnership with the wisdom of God or the simplicity that is in Jesus shall at last be sentenced for ever to depart as the fruit of and proceeding from an adulterous act committed between the Sons of God the Daughters of men and not judged worthy to share the in blessed fruit of the faith and patience of the true seed who being wrought to up to see where and with whom their life and interest is as a naile fastned in a sure place become stedfast and unmoveable in their hopes and of an ability to draw out or extract some good from every appearance of evil and whilest the adversary preys upon their Bodies they rejoyce in their Head the first and the last the root and the off-spring of David the bright morning-Star and to his people the day-spring from on high whilest the Enemies cruelty bring thick darkness upon themselves So that in the day the Enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them it was turned to the contrary Esth 9.11 and the Jews had rule over them that hated them Thus to see the Lord in times of the greatest unlikelyhood so eminently to make known his salvation to his people when the Rulers of the Earth conspire and take Counsel together against them how should it work us off from seeking to hide our interest our life in any thing below himself who is able to make all things to work together for good to those that love and fear him but notwithstanding the wonderful occasions that have been given to believe this a Spirit too much the contrary hath appeared even many that once seemed to have clean escaped the influences of lo here or lo there So that with them what was Paul Apollos or Cephas is not Christ the Head or is there any other King but Jesus and yet after all this as opportunity is presented either in private or publique concerns are joyning issue with Ashdod Ammon and Moah so that when the work of the Lord was to be promoted the language of a true Israelite would not be understood in our Land and no man cared to hear any other then the language of his own people or that whereunto he had espoused himself and that amongst the rest is feared to be an evil of no mean dye and calls for more then an overly repentance from all that have been joyning hands therewith lest the Lord be provoked suddenly to appear terribly against the whole off-spring and proceed of that adulterous conjunction And now ye remnant of the little flock that are risen with Christ minde the things that are above lay up treasure where neither moth not rust doth corrupt for if your inclinations be earthly so will your expectations be as the Lord hath not been wanting to you be you therefore ready to answer the abundant favour bestowed upon you The devices of Satan are many to chill your affection to harden your hearts one against another be wise therefore in your day be not insnared let brotherly love continue and let not parts nor gifts create dissentions amongst you or cause you to justle in the broad way If ye have received be thankful remember that God is love and he that dwelleth in him dwelleth in love it is the fulfilling of the Law the more excellent way wherein notwithstanding the endeavours of the Enemy to the contrary my hopes are to see you walk readily and chearfully without offences or giving any occasion to judge you in meats or drinks or in respect of an holy day And that there will be given a Spirit of wisdome of sound Judgment and true discerning to the upright in heart to make great use of the present diversities of Spirits that seem to be in swift motion at this day to propagate the interest of God and to cherish the power of true godliness wheresoever and in whomsoever it shall appear for as Christ appears more and more so shall his Image of true Godliness appear in his people more