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A93931	A second champion, or, Companion to truth: Wherein is shewed these particulars, or tenets. 1 Of miracles. 2 The reasons wherefore so few imbrace the gospell. 3 Of the first covenant, and the second covenant. 4 Of the father and the son. 5 Of Heaven. 6 Of Hell. 7 Of Glory. 8 Of faith. 9 Of the resurrection, and the eternall judgement. 10 Of visible worship. 11 A postscript. By Richard Stookes preacher of the Gospell	Stooks, Richard, fl. 1651-1652.	1650 (1650)	Wing S5740cA; ESTC R231910	98,234	235

death and shall not the word judge you at the last day for every idle word and is not this the word of Christ John 12. 48. Consider therefore all you that forget God will not his word find you one day and accuse you at the bar of justice for all your contempt and then what answer will you make will you say his word was false or true will you condemn your judge that shall judge you the Lord give to consider that you may prevent the judgements of this Judge CHAP. 2. The Reasons wherefore so few believe and imbrace the Gospel IN the next place I shall endeavour to shew you the Reason wherefore so few believe the ●ospel for Christ saith many are called and few are chosen Mat. 22. 14. And so there is no fault in Christ if he call them and they come not the fault is theirs and not his Christ tells us also That 〈◊〉 is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 few there are that find it Mat. 7. ●4 And 〈◊〉 sure Christ doth not hinder them from finding the way for if he did he would not condemn them for not finding it but sure he 〈◊〉 intend to give them life because he pro●●●● it to them or else he did dissemble with 〈◊〉 which I believe he did not Also the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 as like 〈◊〉 a King that made ●●●●riage for his 〈◊〉 Mat. 22. 2 3 4. Now this King is God who did intend to marry his Sonne to all that imbrace his grace and first he invited the Jewes as Christ himself saith I was not sent but to the lost sheepe of the House of Israel Mat. 10. 6. But the proud Scribes and Pharisees rejected the grace and mercy offered them and respected the pleasures of this world above the riches of Christ and he came unto his own but his own received him not John 1. 11. And therefore the Children of the Kingdom were cast out Mat. 8. 12. And therefore Paul saith it was necessary that the Gospel should be first preached to the Jewes but seeing you reject the Gospel loe we turn to the Gentiles Acts 13. 46. And thus you see they were called but they refused to come and therefore the fault was theirs and not his for Christ saith A sower went forth to sow and some seed fell upon good ground and some fell upon bad ground and some ground brought forth fruit and some brought forth none Now the sower is Christ and the seed is the word of grace and the ground is the World Now it doth appear that the fault was not in the sower for he sowed good seed as you may see Mat. 13. 34. And the same seed was sowen upon the bad ground as upon the good but you may say how came the ground to be bad I reply by the Devil and themselves for God made the ground good as you may see Gen. 2. and so saith the wise Solomon Eccles 7. 29. God made man good but they found out many inventions so that you may see the fault was in the ground and not in the sower nor the seed so that the fault is not in Christ because so few receive the Gospel but in the Creature who is condemned for rejecting the Gospel And now I shall come to Reasons to shew you wherefore so few imbrace the Gospel 1. Because the promises of the Gospel are spiritual and promises of another life and therefore so few receive it for if the Gospel promised to make men rich men and great men in the World then all would be Gospel-Professors because they would be rich and great men in the World and to be honoured of men and to injoy all the glory of the flesh for to have the prayse of men and to have the World on their side but because the Gospel holds forth no such thing but contrariwise those that imbrace the Gospel loose the savour and esteeme of the World and are hated of all men as contemptible men of another World as not worthy 〈◊〉 upon the face of the Earth and therefore there are so few that imbrace the Gospel the wayes of the Gospel being despised and contemptible in the eyes of the World Mat. 10. 22. And this is the Reason wherefore so few imbrace the Gospel of Christ as you may see John 15. 19. 2. Reason Is because the Gospel holds forth a self-denying Creature that a man must deny himself in the honours riches and pleasures of this life and love Christ above all for he that loves Father or Mother Wife and Children or Brother and Sister or any thing in the world more then Christ is not worthy of him and he that doth not denie himself and take up his Crosse and follow Christ cannot be his Disciple Mat. 10. 34. Luke 14. 26. For he that seekes to save his life in the riches honours of this life he shall loose the riches honours in Christ and he that is ashamed to professe the truth of Christ before men Christ will deny him the comforts of the Gospel before his Father which is in Heaven and therefore it is that so few do believe and obey the Gospel even because they love the honours riches and pleasures of this life more then they do Christ Nay rather then they will lose the honour of this world they will 〈◊〉 Christ like Judas for a peece of money 〈◊〉 deny their Master with Peter and forsake Christ with Demas to imbrace this present world so hard a thing is self-deniall to be brought off our own bottoms to imbrace the Gospell that I may say with the Prophet Esay 53. Lord who hath believed our report so many seek themselves and so few the things of Christ that rather then they will deny themselves they deny the Lord that bought them 2 Pet. 2. 1 3 Reason Wherefore so few imbrace the Gospell is because men love the praise of men more then the praise of God for thus it was in the dayes of Christ there were many of the Rulers believed on him but they did not confesse his name and Gospell openly because of the Priests of those times who were enemies to Christ and his truth and for fear of the Priests of those times they ●urst not imbrace the Gospell lest they should lose their favour and be shut out of the synagogue John 12. 42 they will deny Christ for the Text saith That those chiefe Rulers loved the praise of men more then the praise of God ver 43. And thus it is now in our dayes there are many of the chiefe Rulers believe and are perswaded of the truth of Christ but they will not confesse him and 〈◊〉 truth openly because they will not displease the Priests and least they should out themselves out of the fleshly Church of England and that covetous fleshly Ministry and because they love the praise of men more then the praise of God the god of this world having blinded the eyes of the

covenant Now the parties covenanting are the Father and Son for the Father strikes a covenant with the Son that he should teach all men and to do his will in declaring glad tidings to all the sonnes and daughters of men and to manifest his love to the world as you may see John 3. 16. so that if they do imbrace the grace and mercy offered them they may live and this doth appear by the words of the Father himselfe that this is truth for he saith As I live I will not the death of a sinner but that he live Ezek. 18. 32. and doth manifest the same in Isai 49. 6. where he saith That it was a small or light thing that Christ should be his servant to raise up the Tribes of Jacob and to restore the desolations of Israel but I will also give thee a light to the Gentiles and thou shalt be my salvation to the end of the earth to establish the earth and to cause to inherit the desolate heritages that thou maist say to the prisoners come forth and to them that are in darknesse shew your selves Isai 19. 6. 8. 9. And thus you see the Engagement of the Father For it is good and acceptable in his sight that he will have all 〈◊〉 to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth 1 Tim. 2. 3. 4. and consulteth not that any man should perish but that all men should come to repentance 2 Pet. 3. 9. And for this end the Father hath inabled the Son with all sufficiency being full of grace and truth and giving all power into his hands whereby he might be the better inabled to do the same and thus the Father frees himselfe in giving all sufficient power unto the Son whereby he might teach all men and to performe the Covenant on his part and thus you see the incomprehensible love of the Father that he should engage himselfe thus unto the world that he would send his Son to be a Teacher to all the world so that this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather then light And so it doth appear that the Father is not wanting on his part to give light unto the Son that the Son might not be wanting on his part to give light to the world And then in the next place the Son strikes a covenant with the Father for these are the parties covenanting as you may see 1 Tim. 2. ● For there is one Mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus who is called the ●●gel of the Covenant And the Mediatour between God and man who strikes a covenant with the Father saying Lo I come to do thy will O God for thus it is written of me in the volume of thy book to do thy will O God Heb. 10. 1. And so the Son covenants with the Father to do his will For I came to do the will of him that sent me and to declare his mind to the world and so he teaches all men as he himselfe doth declare when he saith When I am ascended I will draw all men unto me John 12. 32. And these are the words of Christ who was never wanting to fulfill his word for he drawes all men as you shall see First By the Works of creation As the heavens declare the glory of God and the earth sheweth forth his handy-worke day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night teacheth knowledge and there is no place where their voyce is not heard for their line is gone through the whole earth and their words unto the end of the world Psam 19. 1. 2. 3. and thus you see Christ drawes all men by the works of creation every creature indeed being a Gospel-Teacher Col. 1. 23. For that which may be known of God is manifest in them even the eternall power of God and the Godhead so that they are left without excuse Rom. 1. 19. 20. so that Christ drawes all men by the workes of creation which are as a naturall eye to see the Sun Secondly Christ drawes all men by Gospel-manifestation and therefore the Gospell is to ●e preached to all Nations Mat. 28. and th●●ery creature Marke 16. And they have not obeyed the Gospel is not for want of hearing for the sound of the Gospel is gone through the earth and their words unto the end of the world Rom. 10. 18. The Gospell being preached to every or in every creature as you may see Col. 1. 29. and therefore Christ himselfe doth declare that the Gospell must be preached to all the world as you may see Mat. 24. 14. for a witnesse to all the world before the end shall come And thus Christ is not wanting to preach the Gospell For as by the sinne of one man death came upon all men to judgement even so by the righteousnesse of one the free-gift came upon all men to justification of life Rom. 5. 19. For this is the command of God that all men should believe in the Son he that doth not maketh God a lyer because he believes not the record that God gave of his Son 1 John 5. 10. And thus you may see that Christ is not wanting on his part to teach all men For this was the end of his coming that all men through him might believe Thirdly He drawes all men by the spirits revelation which was prophesied of before that he would poure out of his spirit upon all flesh Joel 2. 28. and that all flesh should see the salvation of God Mat. 3. 8. 〈◊〉 that grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men teaching them Tit. 2 11. so that all men through him might believe John 1. 7. For he is the light of the world and the true light that lightens every man that cometh into the world John 1. 9. And thus he hath promised to do unto the worst of men as to the simple ones and such as delight in their scorning yea unto fools that hate knowledge and would have poured his spirit upon them had not they rejected it as you may see Prov. 1. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. saying Vnto you Oh men do I call and my voice is to the sonnes of men but seeing I have called and you have refused I will also refuse you saith the Lord. And thus you see the truth of this thing now will you say that Christ is wanting to teach any man the way to salvation whereby he might be saved and if he be you will lay the fault in him which he doth deny saying This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and they love darknesse rather then light because their deeds are evill and will not come to the light John 3. 19. 20. And thus I have shewed you how Christ doth performe his part of the covenant in a word or two which is to teach all men whereby they might believe and imbrace the Gospell and lay hold of eternall life

his Being and for the further probation of this truth I shall come to the Confession of the Sonne who doth acknowledge the Father to be above all when he saith I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent And all things are given unto me of my Father Mat. 11. 25. 27. in doing nothing but by his Fathers appointment Luke 22. 29. and when he said Father into thy hands I commit my spirit Luke 23. 46. as also confessing that the Father sent him John 5. 36 37. doing nothing of himself but as he was taught of the Father John 8. 28. And thus you see the confession of Christ that he did nothing of himself but the Father that sent him gave him a Commandement what he should say and teach as you may see John 12. 49. 50. and when he said Loe I come to do thy will O God And thus you see the Sonne doth acknowled●● the Father to be the onely true God And now I shall come to the testimony of the Apostles to confirme this truth in the●● saying That Jesus when you have Crucified 〈◊〉 God raised up Acts 2. 23 24. and God the Father hath raised up Jesus whereof we are ●●●nesses Acts 2. 32. and in doing their 〈◊〉 works in the name of Jesus whom God hath raised up Acts 4. 10. and the God of our Fathers hath raised up Jesus whom ye flew and hanged upon a tree Acts 5. 30. And the Apo●●e doth declare that to confesse the truth of this Doctrine is the way to salvation Rom. 10. 9. And thus the Apostles do acknowledge the Father to be the onely true God saying There are Gods many and Lords many but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is but one God even the Father of whom 〈◊〉 all things 2 Cor. 8. 5 6. And then you have the confession of the Prophets and Christ and his Apostles that the Father is the onely true God which to know is life eternall And now I shall come to the third thing Thirdly It is life eternall to know the Father as he is the God of all being from whom all things do proceed and therefore there is 〈◊〉 like the Father amongst the Gods so wonderfull in power and in glory Exodus 15. 1● For the Father is greater then all Gods 〈◊〉 in the thing wherein they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he is above 〈◊〉 Exodus 18. 11. and therefore there is no God in Heaven nor in earth that can do according to his works nor according to his might as you may see Deut. 4. 24. being Lord of Heaven above and earth beneath and there is none else Deut. 4. 39. All Nations whom thou hast made shall worship thee for thou art God alone Psa 86. 9. 10. In his hands are the deep places of the earth and his hands formed the dry land the Sea is his and he made it and the height and the strength of the Hills is his also Psa 95. 3 4 5. To him alone that doth great wonders who by his wisdom made the Heavens and stretched out the Earth above the waters and that made the great lights of Heaven which is the God of Gods and his mercy endureth for ever as you may see 136. Psa Who is the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel that dwelleth between the Cherubi●● thou art God even thou alone of all the Kingdoms of the earth thou hast made Heaven and earth Isa 37. 16. and before him there was no God formed neither shall there be after him Isa 43. 10. For thus saith the Lord I am the Lord and there is none else for there is no God besides ●● I girded thee thou hast not known me thou they may know from the rising and from the West that there is none besides ●● I was the Lord and there is none else 45. Is● 5 6 7. And thus he is the true God he is the living God and an everlasting King Jer. 10. 10. that maketh the earth to tremble and the Nations shal not be able to abide his indignation the Gods that have not made the Heavens the Earth shall even perish from the Earth and from under these Heavens and so we have all one father for one God hath created us Mal. 1. 10. and thus you see that the Prophets do acknowledge the Father to be the God of all Being And now I shall shew you the testimony of Christ and his Apostles when Christ saith I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth Mat. 11. 25. and all things are delivered unto me of my Father ver 27. and my Father is greater then I John 14. 28. and my Father is greater then all and I have kept my Fathers commands and abide in his love John 15. 10. and so you see the acknowledgement of the Sonne And now I shall come to his Apostles who do declare that God the Father 〈◊〉 Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and much power for the Father was with him whereof they were Witnesses Acts 10. 48 49. that God the Father made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all things therein Acts 14. 15. ch 17. 14. being Lord of Heaven and Earth and al things therein and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 11. 31. For though there be that are called Gods as there be Gods many and Lords many yet to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things 1 Cor. 8. 5. 6. And thus you see that the Prophets and Christ and his Apostles do acknowledge that God the Father is the onely true God even the God of all Being and thus to know the Father is eternall life And now I shall come to speak of the Son for it is life eternall to know the Sonne as to know the Father the Sonne being the great Prophet of God and the greatest of all the Prophets and the greatest of the sons of men and above all men and Angels next unto God himself and thus to know the Son is eternall life 1. To know him in the promise being promised of long before he came by the Father himself that as he made a Covenant of works with the first Adam he would make a Covenant of grace with the second Adam which should be perfected at the coming of the Some that the love of the Father might be known to all the world the which love and grace was to be declared by the Sonne the chief Prophet of God who was to reveal the mind of God to all men in opening the Fountain of Gods love and mercy and for that cause he was much desired of before he came being the Sonne of the Fathers love in declaring the salvation of God of which salvation the Prophets have enquired searched diligently who Prophecyed of the grace to come searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signifie when it testified before of the sufferings of Christ

worketh good glory Rom. 2. 10. There is a glory in the Law Rom. 12. 23. and the Gospel is called glory 2 Cor. 4. 4. And there is a vaine glory Gal. 5. 26. There is a glory of the Saints Ephes 3. 13. and a glory in affliction and then there is a glory of the Church Ephes 5. 21. and there is a glory in their shame Phil. 3. 19. the Saints were the glory of the Apostles 2 Thes 1. 20. There is a glory of the Whoore Revel 18. 7. and there is a glory of the Gentiles Revel 22. 24. for the Gentiles shall bring their glory to the Saints Revel 1. 26. also there is an earthly glory and there is a heavenly glory a glory in Grace and a glory in Glory and that is the glory of all glories CHAP. VIII Of Faith NOw the Text saith The just shall live by his faith and therefore I shall endeavour to speake a word or two of Faith it is that whereby we live in Grace and it is that whereby we are carried on to Glory now there is a faith of the History and there is a faith of the Mystery there is a faith of Miracles and there is a legall faith there is a temporary faith and an Evangelicall faith and the last is most excellent being the faith of the Gospell that carries us on to Salvation and in the next place I shall shew you what faith is Now faith or beleefe is an obedience to or a living in all the commands of the Gospell to Salvation now it doth appeare that faith or beleefe is obedience because unbeleefe is counted rebellion or disobedience for such as beleeve and obey are justified John 3. 36. for he giveth the Holy Ghost to those that obey him Act. 5. 32. And know you not that to whom you yeeld your selves servants to obey his servants yee are to whom you obey whether of sinne unto death or of obedience to life Rom. 6. 16. and ye have purified your soules in obeying the truth 2 Pet. 1. 22. and thus you see faith or obedience justifieth the creature for thereby he is justified and such as are unbeleevers and disobedient are condemned when Christ shall come in flaming fire to render vengeance to those that obey not the Gospel 2 Thess 1. 8. for to those that are disobedient Christ is a stone to stumble at and a rock to be offended at to such as stumble at the Word being disobedient and obey not that whereon they were set 1 Pet. 2. 7 8. that all those might be damned which obey not the truth but obey unrighteousnesse 1 Thess 2. 10. 12. and thus you see that faith or beleefe is obedience and rebellion or unbeleefe is disobedience now the great controversie will be whether it is Christs worke or the Creatures worke to act faith now the greatest part hold that it is Christs worke to act faith and some few hold that it is the Creatures worke to act faith now the greatest part can never be in the best way and therefore I shall side with the lesser part for they say the fault is in the Creature that he doth not beleeve and the greatest Party say it is not the Creatures worke to beleeve it is Christs worke to act faith and so they lay all the unbeleefe upon Christ and therefore I shal prove that it is the Creatures work and not Christs to act faith And first it is the Creatures worke to beleeve because Christ hath done his work for Christs worke was to obey the Commands of his Father and to set forth such a way to the world as they were to stand to and to establish that way for life and death and this was his worke enjoyned him from the Father which he did in setting downe the minde of the Father in all things that were necessary to salvation which he did and sealed the Doctrine of the Father with his blood and did his worke and therefore he saith If you keepe my Commandements yee shall abide in my love as I have kept my Fathers Commandements and abide in his love John 15. 10. Christs worke was to obey the Commands of the Father and our worke is to obey the Commands of the Sonne and therefore it is our worke to beleeve and not Christs 2. That Christ hath done his worke will appeare because Christ is entred into his rest and sure he did not enter before he had done his worke for he said He had finished his course and done all things that the Father commanded him by perfecting the way of Salvation to all the world and giving Commandement unto his Apostles to establish that Gospel to the whole earth and all things as he had commanded them as you may see Mat. 28. Act. 1. 2. and when he had finished his whole worke he ascended to the Father and is entred into his rest Heb. 4. saying To him that over cometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne as I also overcame and am set downe with my Father in his throne Revel 3. 21. and therefore it doth appeare that it is not Christs worke to act faith in the Creature except you will call him in question from his rest which I thinke you dare not 3. If it be Christs worke to act faith in the Creature then the fault will lye in Christ that the Creature doth not beleeve and then the Father may question the Sonne for all the unbeleefe in the world seeing you say it was Christs worke to act faith in the Creature then all the fault will lye upon him for if he had acted faith the Creature should have beleeved and so the Father might call the Son to an account for all the unbeleefe of the Creature and what is this thinke you but to pluck Christ out of his throne and to take him from his rest 4. If it be Christs worke to act faith in the Creature then the Creature hath a good excuse and may say there is no cause wherefore he should be condemned for not beleeving seeing it was not his worke to beleeve but the fault was in Christ who did not act faith in him and therefore he was not to blame because it was not his worke to beleeve but Christs worke and therefore no reason he should be condemned for anothers fault and so you would excuse the Creature and condemne Christ 5. Christ doth not act faith in the Creature because he shall judge the Creature for not beleeving for it were improper that he should be the Judge that were in the fault and condemne the creature for not beleeving when it was never his worke to beleeve and so the creature might reply unto the Judge that he did condemne him falsely to condemne the creature for not beleeving when it was Christs work to act faith and not the creatures and thus you see what sad effects would follow this Tenent that it is Christs worke to act faith in the creature 6. If it be