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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85461	Saltmarsh returned from the dead, in Amico Philalethe. Or, The resurrection of James the apostle, out of the grave of carnall glosses, for the correction of the universall apostacy, which cruelly buryed him who yet liveth. Appearing in the comely ornaments of his fifth chapter, in an exercise, June 4. 1654. Having laid by his grave clothes, in a despised village remote from England, but wishing well, and heartily desiring the true prosperity thereof.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1307; Thomason E836_1; ESTC R207426	178,733	220

may marry but so as though he had no wife he may use the world but as though it were of no use unto him at all and he may buy but so as one that never intends to possesse for he makes no store or treasure of any thing that is of a perishing nature no not of the worlds ordinances of Christ as they call them being of such nature as are onely comprized within the narrow confines of this mortall life which they cannot extend nor draw them out beyond and therefore things that perish as bodily exercises which profit not So that whatsoever a true Prophet makes use of in the world he abides under suffering of the losse of it and is disjointed from it in the enjoyment of it in point of that spirit wherewith the men of the world pursue and make use of the same thing becoming a pilgrim and stranger to whatsoever the common spirit of the sons of men account themselves at home in and is no more contracted or affianced unto the things of this life then he shall be when in respect of this mortall life he is no more to converse with these transitory things and affaires Whereupon he brings in the next words in way of answer to a question might arise as thus If the Saints of God suffer affliction under so long continued patience wherein then doth their rest and comfort consist the answer is Vers 11. Behold we count them happy that indure Ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord for the Lord is very pittifull and of tender mercy In which words observe these particulars 1. The esteem had of enduring and suffering Behold we count them hapy that endure 2. A pattern thereof propounded Ye have heard of the patience of Job 3. The end God aimes at and attains therein And have seen the end of the Lord. 4. The ground reason of the effecting and accomplishing thereof for the Lord is very pittifull and of tender mercy FIrst for the esteem and account had of suffering it is brought in by way of admiration and wonder Behold it is no lesse then a miracle that all happinesse should consist in durance and suffering for the Saints of God upon true account can sum up the blessed and hapy estate and condition in one continued act of suffering which all the world is so much afraid to undergo that is they suffer the losse of that exercise of spirit in its enjoyments wherein the honour riches praise and proper prosperity of all flesh doth consist naturally considered which is the desire and support of all the men of the world in the losse whereof the Saints are made partakers of that spirit and life of the Sonne of God which springs up and exerciseth its virtue and power in them wherein all true happinesse doth consist and exercise it selfe Which all carnall men decline detest and abhor for they will never accept nor receive Christ upon his own terms and conditions but contrarily reject and cast him off preferring the pleasures of sinne which are but for a season before those riches and treasures stored up for ever in that Son of God It is a wonder and miraculous that afflictions and sufferings which all men are so fearful of should be filled with the victory joy and tryumph of a Saviour therefore it is that the Apostle saith being well acquainted with this point God forbid that I should rejoyoe in any thing save in the crosse of our Lord Jesus Christ whereby the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world Yet all men cannot but have an honorable esteem and high account of an innocent suffering as having praise-worthinesse therein Behold wee count them happy that endure Yea the integrity of the silver tryed in the fining pot and the soundnesse and solidity of the gold in the fornace are precious in the sight of all men Who is the man but when the the suffering and the sufferer seem both to be removed out of the world will not seem to approve of the work Abrahams departure from his fathers house to go to a land he knew not whether and his abode in the same land as a stranger and sojourner not enjoying a foots breadth thereof as the martyr Stephen reports is approved as an excellent thing by all now in our dayes but would be counted great folly to give it a present being in a Prince to for sake his royalties to undergo the crosse of Christ So also his seed going down into Aegypt and suffering hard bondage under cruell task masters with their tediousnesse and dangerous travel in the wildernesse enduring so many cruell assaults of the heathen and in their entrance into the promised land by those seven nations greater and stronger then they The dispertions and persecutions of the Prophets Apostles together with the sufferings and death of Jesus born of the Virgin these being all taken onely as things past turned as into humane history out of which may be collected carnall experiments and policy who is the man that wil not lend an eare unto them and seem to approve them yea the very Scribes Pharises and hypocrits cannot but trumpet out the fame of the Saints in this point of suffering saying That if they had lived in the dayes of their fathers they would not have persecuted the Prophets as they did but in the mean time do nothing else but build the Sepulchres of the Prophets by their erecting of temporary ordinances carnal governments humane institutions and appointments formed and framed from the pattern of the bare letter of the Scripture under which they keep buried the very spirit and life of the Prophets Apostles and Christ him self stifling thereby the very virtue and power of those spirituall and heavenly appointments of the of God among the sons of men In those eternall extentions and operations thereof then the which a greater cruelty cannot be attempted or maintained for as the blood shed in all generations from Abel to Zacharias comes justly upon that present age people who thus deal with the Prophets even so that compleat power glory and presence of the Prince of peace and innocent Lamb of God which hath appeared in any or all ages of the world ought according to the law of truth justice and equity to be set forth made manifest and acknowledged in the present generation and age of the world who is Jesus Christ yesterday and to day and the same for ever though the world know him not nor will acknowledg him so to be Note for conclusion of this point that onely the sufferings of the Saints of God is an innocent suffering for they do not wrong unto use cruelty against or contradict any of the proper creatures or workmanship of God who is the Creator of all things For how soever it be true that the wisdome and subtilty of man be the proper instigator and stirrer up of all perscution and cruelty

from the bitternes of his friends but repayrs all his losses with the right and priviledges of the first-born of God Such is the tendernesse and pitty of the spirit of our good Shepheard gathering the Lambs into his arms and carrying them in his bosome and gently leads such as are with young yea layes downe his life for his flocke And this is the state and condition of all such as find themselves fatherlesse in respect of any love pitty or compassion exercised towards them by the spirit of the world of whom it is sayd Ashur shall not save us we will not ride upon horses neither will we say any more to the works of our hands yee are our gods for in thee the fathers find mercy For he is not only pittifull but of tender mercy whereby the day that springs from on high hath visited us Or that morning Sunne which is the light and glory of the world is risen up upon us to give light to such as otherwise fit in darknesse and in the shadow of death even that light of prosperity joy and gladnesse peace and plenty which ariseth out of the light and inheritance of the first-born unto whom the full inheritance belongs with whatsoever the Father was is or shall be in all his enterprizes and operations For the nature office and operation of the Son of God is ours through these tender mercies bowels and compassions of a Father which cannot with-hold from an only Son not only freeing us as a mercifull high Priest from all evill and sin but as a most bountifull and liberall King supplying and furnishing us with all good for if we see the end of the Lord in our suffering the losse of corruptible things we are sure to feel the tender mercies of a compassionate Father communicating himselfe with us in all the things incorruptible and eternall without which he is not and therefore is ceased to be mercy and tender pity in the world that so as a Father is in his Son he may be what he is only in us Whereupon he brings in an eminent and universall prohibition backed with an exhortation together with the danger of not observing the same contained in the next verse Vers 12. But 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 lest you fall into condemnation Wherein observe these particulars 1. The necessity and weight of the charge in these words But above all things 2. A loving insinuation to move unto observation My brethren 3. The charge it selfe or inhibition Swear not 4. An instance in particulars not to be sworn by that is 1. Not by heaven 2. Not by the earth 3. A universall comprehending of all things contained in them both Neither by any other oath 5. An exhortation consisting of affirmation and negation But let your yea be yea and your nay nay 6. The danger ensuing the not observing hereof Lest you fall into condemnation AND first of the charge Sweare not By swearing in this place is meant any Covenant Contrract or betrothing unto a thing as to be engaged as subservant thereunto that is when we are obliged and bound over as being under the authority or command of any thing further then it is found in or serving unto the compleating and setting forth the mysticall body of Christ that son of eternity Now a man is under the command and power of a thing when he waites thereupon so as to observe and answer to the time and opportunity thereof In the rejection or neglect of any other thing which might take up the opportunity and hinder or obstruct the time whereby that his Commander might be defrauded of its interest in him whether it be office dignity allyance relation slothfulnesse or operation And first for office and dignity throughout the confines and government of a Kingdome they ought not to captivate a Christian but must be subservant to the kingdome and call of Christ whose kingdome is not of this world or things therof When did Abraham that high father of the world Isaac and Jacob who were heyrs with him of the same promise settle and establish their Scepter in any part of the earth as tyed by place and office there and were not as pilgrims and strangers standing in readinesse as that righteous one of the East to answer Gods calls and to follow the Lord at his foot who made the nations as stubble unto his sword and as driven stubble unto his bow Or where did Moses King in Jeshurunn pitch his Tent to make his abode longer then it pleased that cloud of witnesse to exercise its abode upon the Tent being ever ready to depart with the motion thereof Which bore witnesse in its two and forty removals in the wildernesse to those two and forty generations or resurrections of Christ from Abraham to the womb of the Virgin as also to the over-shadowing of the Virgin by the spirit of God in that conception of the Son of God from all the scorching reys and sun-shine of mans glory and subtlety in that day-time of our salvation as also unto that fiery light of the spirit breaking forth in Israel through that Crosse of Christ as in a night so dark and obscure unto the nations And to what people or places were any of the Prophets of God or Apostles of Jesus Christ tyed or engaged by any temporary or terrene band except imprisonment by the adversary that so the vertue of the Crosse in its courage constancy and Princely resolutions might appear and make it self evident Or were the Judges and Law givers in Israel tyed to dayes times seates and circuits as men making merchandizes of mens estates credits and lives that in case an Oath be bidden and given in exchange delivery must be made without controversie and many times the cause is as currant as when the strongest caries away the purse on the high way though a possibilty may be to finde out the falshood of the oath afterwards when there is left no hope of redemption And as for that mercinary and belly-god-like bond to be engaged to places and people under the names of Pastor and Teacher to evade the troubles and travels of Prophets and Apostles Let that suffice which hath already been sayd only let such look themselves as in a glasse in that young man of the house of Judah and yet a Levite joyned unto their congregations as he to the family of Mica Read Judg. 17. and let them read the effect of their Ministry in that strange kind of Levite who is of mount Ephraim joyned unto his Concubine of Bethlehem Juda according to what it brings forth between Benjamine and Israel set forth unto us Judges the 19. and 20. Chap. Againe in point of family as in kindred and relations the words of Christ holds firm and are to be valued at the same rate we set upon him and he