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A65195	Two treatises ... both written by Sir Henry Vane, Knight in the time of his imprisonment.	Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662.; Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662. Epistle general, to the mystical body of Christ on earth.; Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662. Face of the times.	1662 (1662)	Wing V80_PARTIAL; Wing V67_PARTIAL; ESTC R7026	96,369	132

take an account who they are that have acquit themselves as they ought to do in their witnessing-stations and callings and what fruit their witness had how it took place in the hearts of others among whom they conversed and what returns they met with from a wicked and ingrateful world for all the labour of Love and Service they shewed amongst them Of all which Christ intends to take a formal and judicial account at the time of the end that is set by him to this witnessing-work in his witnesses that upon this employment Prophesying in sack-cloth were to continue as in constant war and violent persecution from the Powers of the world for twelve hundred and sixty years together At the end of which time the Judgment or time of Wrath is to come not that which is the final Judgment and Wrath of the great Day but a like proceeding of God towards the World in pleading with it by Fire and Sword upon the finishing the Testimony of his Witnesses as he did by Water upon the first World where he made a visible distinction between the Wicked and the Righteous and between them that truly fear God and are sincere and them that fear him not but are tainted and corrupted with Hypocrisie and Apostacy as is plainly expressed Rev. 11. 18. And the Nations were angry and thy Wrath is come and the time of the Dead or the Cause of thy slain rejected Witnesses that they should be judged and an Inquisition made after their Blood and the hard usage they have met with in the World in order now to receive Countenance and Reward for their Sufferings according to the nature of them and the condition and place in which they gave their Witness whether they were Prophets or Saints that fear God's Name small or great and to yeeld Vengeance and Destruction to impenitent and hardned Sinners that they may no longer corrupt the Earth And therefore as in this place we may see Christ lighteth up his Candles in the World of all sorts and sizes and indeed in all places of it from East to West and hath given the Light of his Glory and Kingdom as that Testimony which is appointed to be given and preached in all the World as a Witness to all Nations and immediately after this is finished then the End comes the End that God will manifest of his patience and long-suffering which he hath exercised towards the World in forbearing to avenge the Cause of his Elect which hath been night and day crying to him How long Lord how long which in this day of his Wrath he will avenge and that speedily and cut the work short in Righteousness And because we have said the Candles or Lamps which God lights up in the World for this his witnessing-Witnessing-work ever since his Ascention to this day according to the Commission he gave to his Disciples Act. 1. 8. and in them to all his Saints small and great that fear his Name as we shewed before are of several sizes and kinds it may not be improper to declare them As first Their Witnessing-Lights may be such as are in publick Office and Place in the visible Church and so are either those that are in the Ministry or those that give their Witness as the Body of some particular Congregation that own themselves in the sight of the world as a Golden Candlestick or some particular Church-Assembly of visible Saints in order and practice of the Gospel according to their measure and light And under this first head will fall all sorts of Principles and Professions of Godliness that make the Rule of the Word and Spirit of God the Ballance of the Sanctuary the Standard by which they desire to regulate themselves in their Doctrine Worship and Conversation what-ever difference in Principles or Ministry of the knowledge of Christ they are under as hath been before opened and distinctly spoken unto Secondly Their Witnessing-Lights may be Publick Persons with relation to their Office in the Magistracy For it is by me saith Christ that Kings reign and Princes do Justice So that in the administration of pure and impartial Justice as a Magistrate in whatever Place and Calling we are set by God and a lawful Appointment from men we keep on the right way without turning on the right hand or on the left for fear or favour discovering a just mind that is a constant and perpetual or unchangeable will to do right to all whatever discouragement opposition and hatred we meet with in doing our duty This is a Light before men which Christ will own in the day of his appearance to have been for his Service and shall not go without its due reward Thirdly There are also the same witnessing Lights in the lesser sphears of every man's particular station and calling which shine forth in a personal righteous and blameless conversation or where their vote or consent is given in reference to the good of the Church or State or to the private Rule which every Master and Head of a Family is by Christ entrusted with in reference to his own Children and Family who are under his charge and not so much at their own dispose as his who hath a right over them by God's Law and man's and by the duty of this relation every man may be somewhat directed even by the world what he is and what Witness he gives in the measure of the Knowledge and Light of Christ he hath received and shall accordingly be taken notice of and judged by Christ in the day of his Judgment ministring Perdition to ungodly men In this little a faithfulness to Christ is expected and that according to the measure of Light received and the Anointing we are under of which there hath already the several degrees and kinds been made known The use therefore that Christ makes of this Light in the world that these several wayes he makes to shine like Lightning from the East to the West from Jerusalem to the utmost ends of the Earth is as to the world to leave them without excuse and ripen them as white fields to the harvest of his just Vengeance when the time is to put in his Sickle And as to the Witnesses themselves to bring upon them a time of refreshing and rest from the presence of the Lord in the sight of their very Enemies where a Table shall be prepared for them and their Cup shall be made to overflow This then being the Testimony that must be finished and these the Witnesses in their several Places and Callings who have been imployed in bearing and giving their Testimony in the World ever since Christ's Ascention the course whereof hath had its progress from East to West and is now come to these utmost ends of the Earth The Scriptures do with great clearness as to the present dispensations of our day teach us three things First That this Testimony is now upon its finishing point in the World and upon these

as in a wilderness condition for 1260 years now near expired And although from that state of servitude and hard bondage unto which you have been exposed by the Rulers no wrestlings or contendings by humane wisdom and power have availed to work your deliverance because the appointed time set by God is not come Yet this ought to be your comfort that so soon as that time comes there will then need very little other help than the Grave it self to cast you forth as the Womb doth her fruit which it cannot longer detain For of this be assured that Christ's dead body mystical can no more be held in its figurative grave after the set time is come than his natural body could in his literal grave Acts 2. 24. where it is said that after Christ by wicked hands had been slain God raised him up having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible he should be held of it Nor are you to be too much grieved and discouraged in this your low depressed and dead estate under the rage and indignation of the World and Powers of it since to you is the promise of Life and Resurrection and you are sure for the present to be fed in the Wilderness and to be kept green and flourishing in your inward man by secret dew inspired and distilled from Heaven whatever perishing and decays are brought upon your outward where you are bearing the marks of the dying of the Lord Jesus Hearken therefore to the Call that is given you of retiring inward into the life of your Head and Root the life that is hid with Christ in God And as the means to be so with more freedom labour to keep the door of your sensual part shut and fast closed about you as much as may be that the noise and diversions of this sinful and unquiet World may not disturb nor interrupt you For though through impatience and unbelief you may be arguing and concluding against your selves as the whole house of Israel did Ezek. 37. 11. that your bones are dried your hope is lost and you are cut off for your parts yet ye shall know that the Lord he is God when he hath opened and brought you up out of your graves v. 13. He will then own you visibly for his people by wonderfully putting his Spirit within you and causing you to live And when you see this your heart shall rejoyce and your bones shall flourish like an herb and the hand of the Lord shall be known towards you his servants and his indignation towards his enemies He hath the weapons of his vengeance in readiness full Vials of his wrath to be poured forth by his heavenly Militia and Troops upon the Beast and his Worshippers when all humane means fail This you are therefore to know that though the Saints who have adventured to oppose the Beast and the kingdom of Antichrist all along contending in a good Cause have been still crushed and subdued as is foretold Rev. 13. 7. yet the time is coming yea is even at the very door for God to take the business into his own hands and to put forth the power of his wrath by heavenly Instruments forasmuch as the earthly ones as you have seen have proved ineffectual And this ought to be a teaching to us to depend upon God for the avenging of his people even when all humane ability to perform it is vanished and not hastily to run out in the use of any indirect means though tempted and allured thereunto But to return to the things which we propound to set before you in this Epistle They are reducible unto these particulars following 1. First The sight and knowledge of Christ as he is the Invisible and Holy One from whom as from the Head all natural as well as spiritual good doth flow 2. Secondly Christ's Headship exercised by him ever since his Ascension as he is the Son of man glorified and this in the two distinct branches and administrations of it The one that wherein he is the Lord and restorer of pure incorrupt Nature upon the Principles of the first Covenant renewed and confirmed in his blood The other that in which he is the giver of the Holy Ghost or the Minister of the Spirit and new Name as Ointment poured forth which where it is received upon the Principles of the new Covenant never fails but abides with such for ever 3. Thirdly The true Annointed Ones or Witnesses of Christ according to both his before-mentioned Administrations and the Annointing which is given by the one and by the other 4. Fourthly Those that in Principles are opposite unto these two Annointings and the effects of them declaring their enmity in and by the continued war they maintain against them in the posture of open enemies or dissembled friends both making up but one and the same Kingdom of Antichrist 5. Fifthly What Word and part of his Counsels contained in the Promises and Prophesies not yet accomplished is the Lord now fulfilling in the present dispensations of our day 1. To the first 'T is the Testimony which came out of Christ's own mouth concerning Himself and his Father Luke 1. 22. That no man knows who the Son is but the Father nor who the Father is but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal Him which plainly declares that the beings both of the Father and of the Son are great and hidden Mysteries The one as well as the other is mystical and invisible and must be taught and revealed before it can be truly and fully known and understood what they are Agreeable to this is that Joh. 1. 18. No man hath seen God at any time that is immediately but by the means of the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father he hath declared him The Son therefore who is the only begotten is said to be the Image of the invisible God The first name and similitude whereby God is possible and capable to be known to others beside himself For by and from Him as the Head the knowledge and fruit of the whole Deity is derived and communicated in such fit Images and lively Representations as He hath fore-determined within himself to be known by unto his whole Creation from the beginning to the end thereof Hence it is that we find Christ the Mediator by the Prophet Isa 43. 10. speaking of himself after this manner Ye are my Witnesses saith the Lord and my Servant whom I have chosen The Lord the Mediator hath and owns for his Witnesses the Womans Seed in the head and in the members the promised Seed in his Servant the Branch the chief and principal one and in his Brethren the same Seed and who are made to bear his Fathers Name by Adoption as well as himself and to continue it for ever that one Seed Gal. 3. which saith the Apostle is Christ the mystical body that are Heirs according to promise Ye are my Witnesses sayes

or to fasten the one to the other and the one part shall go toward the East into down-right Popery the other unto the West at the vastest distance and greatest contrariety one to the other that is imaginable so as half of this Mountain of visible Saints in Name shall remove North deeper into the Apostacy and the other half South nearer to the Heavenly Jerusalem And in this state of things when the Iron shall break the Kingdom of the Clay to pieces And again that Kingdom of Clay shall divide and remove one half to the East and the other to the West causing a most terrible Earthquake as in the dayes of Uzziah at which time of this Earthquake the tenth part of the Papal Sea shall make a final defection from her and the Lord my God shall come and all the Saints with thee that is to say He shall Muster up his Heavenly Troops and take to himself his great Power in which he shall begin to reign by the executing of his Wrath and divine Vengeance upon his Enemies in the pouring out the seven vials which is the time of the end that is to say of ending the 1260 years for the two Witnesses Prophesying in Sackcloth and the Womans remaining in the Wilderness and the time when the rising of the Witnesses doth begin and that Saviours shall come upon Mount Sion and judge the Mount of Esau spiritually as the ten Kings shall judge them outwardly and give the flesh of the Whore to be torn in pieces and burnt with fire These with others that might be alledged are the characters and signs to prove the first particular that the Testimony which Christ declared so long ago was to be given by the Preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom in all the World and unto all Nations is upon its finishing point The Second which is the ending of that Dispensation and the beginning of a new one by the pouring out of the seven vials to the utter destruction of Antichrist's Kingdom and the cutting out the stone without hands in preparation to the perfect deliverance of the Church out of Babylon and the compleat bringing them out of their Captivity in order to the actual Restoring the Kingdom of Israel is that we shall likewise give some short discovery of Two things are comprehended in the Restoring the Kingdom to Israel First Israel it self the true Inhabitants and Citizens of the New and Heavenly Jerusalem must be restored to a Kingdom that is a visible incorporated Society of Subjects relating to the true David their King as their Soveraign and only Law-giver disclaiming all other reigning or exercising Dominion over them Secondly Over Israel thus restored to be a Kingdom Christ will shew and own himself visibly their King and the Universal Monarch over the whole World who at that time shall be one Common-wealth of Israel and Children of Abraham under one of the two Covenants yielding either true or feigned Obedience if not out of Love yet from the fear of Wrath Divine Vengeance begun to be revealed and poured forth upon all the Disobedient For no sooner shall the Vials begin to be poured out but the time is come of Christ's Wrath that is to say when he shall come forth in the visible execution of his Royal Office and Power amongst them in the hands of his undoubted Officers executing Judgment upon all that shall withstand his Peoples Freedom and coming out from under their former servitude and bondage under the Kingdom of Antichrist and this in order to restore Israel unto such a constitution of a Kingdom which Christ is to exercise over them during the space of a thousand years And therefore that which first begins this new dispensation called the time of the end is the rising of the Witnesses by an extraordinary pouring out of the spirit as the latter rain which like Life from the dead shall enter into them and set them upon their feet and qualifie those in office amongst them as their Rulers in State or Church with a like and greater power than was given in the Type and Figure to Moses and Elias at whose word the earth was smitten with visible plagues and curses as often as they saw cause to promote the end for which they were sent and employed and so it must be again in a much more glorious dispensation thereby to restore and constitute Israel into a Kingdom in despite of all opposition which plainly evidences that such a dispensation as this is necessary as that which must be preparatory and conducing to give the actual being and constitution of a Kingdom to a People that are found in so great and universal a state of servitude and bondage far beyond that which Israel was in to whom Moses was sent to bring them out of Egypt Therefore behold the dayes come saith the Lord Jer. 23. 7 8. that they shall no more say the Lord liveth which brought the Children of Israel out of the land of Egypt but the Lord liveth which brought up and which led a parallel dispensation to Moses his bringing them up and leading them as a horse in the Wilderness Esay 63. the seed of the house of Israel out of the North Country and from all Countries whither I had driven them and they shall dwell in their own land The spiritual seed of Israel driven in the time of the Gentiles into the Wilderness and kept slaves to the highest degree during the reign of Antichrist must have a time of gathering and bringing up into their land under their own King and the Nation that hath kept them in bondage God himself must and will judge more signally than he did Pharaoh and the Egyptians by which means this stone that hath been fallen upon and suppressed for so many hundred years even these fixed unmoveable chaste followers of the Lamb must rise and stand again upon their feet with great power and authority so as they shall not onely be a burthensome stone for all people that burthen themselves with it Zach. 12. 3. to the cutting them in pieces though the people of the earth be gathered together against them but vers 5 6. In that day saith the Lord I will make the Governours of Judah like an hearth of fire in a sheaf and they shall devour all the people round about on the right hand and on the left and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place even in Jerusalem and the Lord himself shall defend in that day Jerusalem and he that is feeble amongst them shall be as David and the house of David as God as the Angel of the Lord before them so as the Governours of Judah shall say there is strength to me and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem in the Lord of Hosts their God I know it is and will be Objected that these places refer to the conversion of the Jews that are the natural seed of Abraham which are expected to be first received again as

matters for the good of the VVomans Seed during the third Day or Age of the world This day reaches from Christ's Ascention or departure into a far Country to God's bringing again this his only begotten Son into the world that every tongue may confess and every knee bow to the honour of his most glorious Name Then shall he in the quality of Universal King as well on Earth as in Heaven enter upon and keep the possession of his Kingdom against all Usurpers and Opposers whatsoever This space of time between Christ's Ascention to Heaven and Reign on Earth is measured out in three great and distinct Sections or Divisions in the Book before-mentioned as Mr. Mede takes notice and every of these three are again made to contain in them seven Sub-divisions of that portion of time that is allotted unto each of them Hereupon Mr. Mede's own words are The order of the Seals and in them of the Trumpets is certain and undoubted to wit the same which the number to every one ascribed doth point out 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. The rest therefore of the Prophecies in that Book being compared first between themselves and afterwards with the Seals by way of Synchronism the Order of the whole Revelation will be evident This Assertion of his I take to be most clear He therefore begins with that notable quaternion of Prophecies which are so very remarkable by reason of the equality of their times 1. The first is the Prophecy of the VVoman's remaining in the VVilderness for a time times and half a time or 1260 dayes as is there more manifestly declared 2. The second is that of the seven-headed Beast restored and ruling forty two months 3. The third is of the Court or of the holy City trodden under foot by the Gentiles 4. The fourth and last is that of the two Witnesses prophesying 1260 dayes that is years Now although as Mr. Mede well observes the character of equality of times will not be sufficient to evidence that they are the same times but may be before or after yet by other characters which that Book affords to make out the demonstration it seems very clear These other characters he brings as well he may out of the twelfth Chapter where 't is plain that when the Dragon is cast down by Michael out of Heaven the VVoman escapes from his ●●●sence into the VVilderness ver 6 and 14. The Dragon being 〈◊〉 that he had failed of his attempt to destroy her in Heaven re●●● to his earthly weapons and applies himself to make war with the VVoman and with the rest of her Seed to wit those which she should bring forth in the VVilderness ver 17. And for this purpose he gave his Power his Throne and great Authority to the ten-horned Beast out of the Sea ascending Chap. 13. 1 2. By Chap. 11. it appears that the times of the Beast and of the Prophecy of the VVitnesses are equal and that they are finished together at the end of the sixth Trumpet which shews they began and held on together the whole space The twelfth verse shews the Ascention of the VVitnesses into Heaven which puts a period to their mourning Prophecy as also that great Earthquake wherewith the Imperial City being overthrown the Kingdom of the Beast comes to be abolished noted by the very moment in which the second Woe which is under the sixth Trumpet went out On this the third Woe is quickly to ensue at the sounding of the seventh Trumpet In that very moment of time that the Witnesses whom the Beast ascending out of the bottomless pit had slain being at the point of finishing their Testimony in sackcloth were revived by the spirit of life from God entring into them and ascending up into Heaven the same hour the tenth part of the City fell by means of the great Earthquake Then matters are brought to that pass that the seventh Trumpet sounding all the Kingdoms of the World become our Lord's and his Christ's In the same moment also the Wrath of the Lamb comes to be poured out by the Ministry of the Vials and the Temple of God is to be seen in Heaven ver 15 19. The great Harlot or mystical Babylon chap. 17. is of the same time with the seven-headed and ten-horned Beast as are also the hundred forty and four thousand sealed Ones being Virgins these are of the same time with the Whore of Babylon and the Beast The period of the Tyranny of the Beast and of this Company of the sealed Virgin-Saints is at the coming forth of the multitude of Palm-bearers For out of what tribulation could they come but of the Beast's persecuting the Saints Therefore they leave the Tyranny of the Beast behind them and are of one Mystical Body or Church with the sealed Ones and have been under the same Persecution with them but are Saints of an inferiour rank and station to those that have the priviledge and dignity to be sealed with the Name of the Father in their foreheads Chap. 7. The two ●orned Beast hath contemporized with the ten-horned Beast Chap. 13●…e Whore with both and all these three with the Woman in the Wildern●… the treading under foot the holy City and the Witnesses mean time mourning in sackcloth The company also of the sealed Virgins and the company of Palm-bearing Virgins brought from under great tribulation into a safe and blessed state though no mention be made of their being sealed these as to the season of their tribulation under the persecuting Beast contemporize with the Whore and the Beast All these contemporize one with another and fill up the same space of time After this succeeds the Ministry of the seven Vials at the Rising of the Witnesses and the moment of their ascending into Heaven This will come to pass at the beginning of the sounding of the seventh Trumpet Then the triumphing state of the Witnesses will come on The power of the Keyes and the pouring forth of the Vials of God's Wrath upon the Kingdom of the Beast will be visibly committed to them and the time of the Beast's and Babylons inclining to Ruine or the visibly declining sinking state of both will fall in together with this Dispensation of the Vials to make way for the Marriage of the Lamb and the coming down of the New Jerusalem out of Heaven to be seen as the Tabernacle of God amongst men here on Earth The remaining difficulty then is to fill up the first of the three great Sections and Divisions of time before-mentioned to wit the space which had an end put to it by the Womans actual flight into the Wilderness This began when John received this Prophecy in the Isle of Patmos Mr. Mede very judicially summeth it up in these three Particulars 1. The value and preference which is put by God upon the state of the Church as it answers to the inward Court of the Temple of old comparatively with those who in their spirit principle

Faith as the mark for the price of the high Calling of God in Christ Jesus This is that perfection which by conformity with Christ in his Death and fellowship with him in his Resurrection is in a most eminent degree attainable before our dissolution and the putting off our earthly Tabernacle It shall be so far attained by the Power and Glory of Christ that is to be revealed in us that it shall not much fall short of a very Transfiguration And the state of the then glorious Church will be no less than an Heaven upon Earth in the new Heavens and new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness This glorious state of things we look for and therefore are or ought to be hasting a-pace unto the coming of that Day of God Yet when I say until we experience this kind of perfection in Power in us that which is perfect is not yet come my meaning is not that the incorruptible Seed and Principles of this very perfection are not already seated and rooted in the inward man and in the Spirit of the Mind so soon as we are regenerated and that Christ is formed in us dwelling in our hearts by Faith Thus it is that we are all glorious within Thus the Kingdom of Heaven is within us liken'd to the hidden Treasure which when a man hath found in the field he keeps it concealed till he hath sold all that he hath and bought that field Faith which is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of that Glory which doth not yet appear is not unfitly expressed when it is called a light shining in a dark place that is in our bodily and sensual part which continues so for a long time after our new birth But those that are all glorious within must have their time of manifestation and be made all glorious without also The outward-man of the heart and the outward Court of the Temple must come to be measured and be of account and estimation in the sight of the World Then the whole body shall be full of light having no part dark as when the bright shining of a Candle doth give thee light This is the Perfection which is near us even at the very door ready to be testified and witnessed unto after another manner than those do pretend to who are for the subjecting and keeping under the body but by those mutable and wavering Principles of Perfection which amounts but to that visibility of Saintship which is the subject of Apostacy yet hath hitherto passed for currant Coin Nor would I have it thought that I have already attained the powerful practice of this holy Duty and Perfection but it is much in my desire aim and hope The difficult Circumstances I am in and that I am still more and more every day cast into by God's wise-disposing Providence to the sequestring me from the World and with-holding all sensible Comforts from me so much as he doth make me in some sort confident it is for a good end and that out of love and faithfulness I am made to drink of this bitter Cup the better to help forward this necessary work in me and upon me wherein consists the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God If I may have and enjoy this it would seem a very little matter to me to be in outward bonds banishment want or any other afflictions Help me then in all your solicitudes and cares about me to what will further and advance this Work in me The Lord grant me and mine to be content if he deny us to live of our own and will bring us to the daily bread of his finding which he will have us wait for fresh and fresh from his own Table without knowing any thing of it before-hand Peradventure there is a greater sweetness and blessing in such a condition than we can imagine till we have tryed it This may add to my help even our making little haste to get out of our Troubles patiently waiting till God's time come wherein he will open the Prison doors either by Death or some other way as he please for the magnifying his own great Name not suffering us to be our own chusers in any thing as hitherto hath been his way with us And why should such a taking up Sanctuary in God and desiring to continue a Pilgrim and solitary in this World whilst I am in it afford still matter of jealousie distrust and rage as I see it doth to those who are unwilling that I should be buried and lie quiet in my grave where I now am They that press so earnestly to carry on my Tryal do little know what presence of God may be afforded me in it and issue out of it to the magnifying of Christ in my body by Life or by Death Nor can they I am sure imagine how much I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ which of all things that can befal me I account best of all And till then I desire to be made faithful in my place and station to make confession of him before men and not deny his Name if called forth to give a publick Testimony and Witness concerning him and to be herein nothing terrified What then will the hurt be that I can or shall receive by the worst that man can do unto me who can but kill the body and thereby open my Prison door that I may ascend into the pleasures that are at Christ's right hand prepared for those that testifie and openly discover their love to him by not loving their lives unto the death Surely this will prove better than to prefer sin or evil so much as in appearance unto Affliction and the Cross which Christ would have me take up daily and follow him in If the Storm against us grow still higher and higher so as to strip us of all we have the Earth is still the Lords and the fulness thereof he hath a good store-house for us to live upon There is nothing more destructive to us every way then the uncertainty we are in God can and if he think fit will chalk out some way wherein he may appear by his Providence to choose for us and not leave us to our own choice And being contracted into that small compass which he shall think fit to reduce us unto we may perhaps meet with as true inward contentement and see as great a mercy in such a sequestration from the World as if we were in the greatest outward prosperity I know nothing that remains unto us but like a tossed Ship in a storm to let our selves be tossed and driven with the Winds till he that can make these storms to cease and bring us into a safe Haven do work out our deliverance for us I doubt not but you will accordingly endeavour to prepare for the worst March 7. 1661 -62 FINIS ERRATA In the Epistle to the Reader Page 1. line 30. leave out if and now In the Epistle General Pag. 6. l. 9. f. well r. dwell P. 7. l. 30. f. manhead r. manhood the same word is so misprinted all along and to be so corrected P. 8. l. 23. f. their r. your P. 10. l. 39. leave out or would not P. 15. l. 17. f. or r. nor l. 37. r. see him not P. 21. l. 30 31. leave out the fountain of these outward senses his inferiour part to be in his Soul or Spirit l. 37. f. his r. it s P. 23. l. 17. r. much as hearers P. 24. l. 22. f. and r. which l. 23. leave out in P. 25. l. 9. f. of his r. for his P. 26. l. 10. f. are r. seem l. 40. f. duly r. daily f. by r. find P. 27. l. 9. f. other r. one l. 40. leave out not 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