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A41575	An antidote against the common plague of the world, or, An answer to a small treatise (as in water, face answereth to face) intituled Saltmarsh returned from the dead and by transplacing the letters of his name, this is Smartlash : ascend into the throne of equity, for the arraignment of false interpretours of the word of God : summoned out of all ages to appear, under the penalty of death, challenging the consent, or forbidding to gainsay the common approved priesthood of this age.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1305; ESTC R24349	253,337	351

and victory Heb. 2. 10. Heb. 3. 1. and is here personated in Zachariah as our high Priest and Reconciler unto God by his office and ministry as he is personated in Abel as the only acceptable gift and off-spring which twain are never out of relation but ever in conjunction as here brought in together for no man can prove his office to minister before the Lord further than he can prove himself the acceptable Sacrifice offered up unto the Lord therefore Christ brings in himself here under the name of Zachariah to note the nature and fulnesse of his office which these false Interpreters reject describing himself by this name as well as by the name Abel it signifying the mind of the Lord or the full mind of the Lord or a man of the Lord to declare that as he is emptied of all humane excellencies proper to the mind of man so he is furn shed with the fulnesse of the mind of God for none knows the father but the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him Mat. 11. 27 who minds only the glory and cause of the Lord and so according to this name he is described to be mindfull of the Lord or the full and compleat mind of the Lord signifying from whom he came as he is the fulnesse of Gods mind and what his errand is namely to be mindfull of Gods cause only Again it signifies a man of the Lord to declare that a Christian is of no humane investment into office nor acts by any humane authority but hath his instalment and authority to exercise from the Lord of all the Earth and thus Christ is declared by this name Zachariah as one who is of the mind and counsell of God in the exercise of the Priests office whom these hypocrites reject to the letting out and spilling the very soul and life thereof by their traditions Mat. 15. 3. 6. Again he is here set forth by an ancestour as being the son of Barachiah in which the mystery of this Scripture is declared and signified unto us for this Zachariah was the son of Jehoida the high Priest of God in the dayes of wicked Ioash though it is said that he did uprightly in the sight of the Lord in the dayes of Jehoida the high Priest 2 Chron. 24. namely that wicked Ioash being that what he did in the time of Iehoida all his Actions as the History declares ●ise from the counsell and operations of the high Priest which are reckoned upon Joash in like sort as the choise of Christ is reckoned upon Iudas together with the rest of the Disciples and as Iudas is said to have part in that ministry which was the proper portion of the rest of the Disciples out of which he is excluded in point of any fruit or benefit thereby but departed therefrom by going to his own place Iohn 6. 70. Acts 1. 17. 25. so that his actions are said to be upright namely the ordering of the Kingdome as it had respect to Iehoiada in his dayes who was the proper Agent in the affais of the Kingdom as well as of the Priesthood in his dayes therefore Zachariah hath not the name of his Father Iehoiada by that name the son of Iehoiada but by the name of Barachiah being related here unto his Ancester by vertue of that Kingly Priesthood which his Father sustained signified closely unto us under the name Barachiah which signifies the blessing of the Lord which is the Priests office to blesse in the name of the Lord Numb 6. 23. 24. 25. 26. Deut. 10. 8. 1 Chron. 23. 13. for ever So that he is related to his Father as the proper off-spring of that Princely office which comprehends the vertue and power both of Kingdom and Priesthood whom these false Interpreters are said to slay for Iehoiada the Priest was the proper Ruler of the Kingdom in his dayes in the time of wicked Ioa● and therefore Joash is said to do that which was upright in the days of Iehoiada because Iehoiada was the originall and fountain of the work as was noted above for he submitted unto the high Priest in all things and therefore Iehoiada is buried in the Sepulchre of the Kings which was denyed to Ioash at his death 2 Chron. 24. Jehoiada was privy to his being hid and maintained in the house of the Lord for the space of six years as a perfect escape from the hands of wicked Athalia and cessation from her Idolatry in the time of the high Priest 2 Kings 11. And in the seventh year Iehoida brings a most Princely guard into the house of the Lord for his defence the high Priest lets the Crown upon his head and causeth Athalia to be slain he makes a Covenant between the Lord and Ioash and also between him and the People he gives the King his Wives as being the proper Author of all relations in the Kingdom and is the prime provoker and stirrer up of the Levites and all the people unto the repair of the house of the Lord who otherwise moved not at the voice of the King therefore Zachariah is related unto his Ancester as being the Off-spring Son and Heir to such a noble office by the name of Barachiah blessing and speaking well of the Lord or bowing the knee unto the Lord as being subject to none but he no not to Ioash further than he follows his counsell and advise and therefore when Ioash fals away to Idolatry Zachariah stands up above the People that is as a man of God in the name and authority of God as one above that idolatrous Nation higher than the Princes or People thereof now falne unto Idolatry and feares not to tell them how they have transgressed the Commandements of the Lord and therefore cannot prosper nor passe through their design but as they have forsaken the Lord and departed from the wayes of Iehoiada that is from the knowledge of the Lord as his name signifies so the Lord had forsaken them declaring thereby that as then Iehoiada the high Priest was dead in that time of their Idol worship so wherever there are carnall Ordinances and Institutions set up that men must submit unto there is the Lord Iesus dead the high Priest of our profession in point of all spirituall and holy administrations both in Kingly and Priestly office which includes all other offices whatsoever as they were then dead in Iehoiada in order to Ioash and his Nobles who as his name signifies disagreeing or fiery so he now manifests himself against the godly and propheticall off-spring of the high Priest in Zachariah for he clothing himself with obeisance counsell and honour of his wicked Princes fals to Idolatry in which act of his Iehoiada is dead our high Priest in all spirituall respects Iehoiada is dead also in his son Zachariah in point of all carnall administrations both in Kingdom and Priesthood who is clothed as the Text saith with the Spirit of God and therefore declares

to any of their principles our faith depends not upon any of their principles our love embraceth not upon any of their principles our hope expects not upon any of their principles nor doth our power and sufficiencie stand upon any of their principles And therefore as brute beasts are unto them so are they to us in the things of God and we are unto them as men bereaved of their wits for they cannot but discern a certain power of argument in us beyond all brutish cogitations whatsoever yea such as transcends and over-tops what is in themselves for the Wisdom of God though a meek and descended Wisdom yea foolishness in the worlds estimation yet it over-powers and over-tops the highest Cedars standing in the worlds Lebanon and is bottomed and founded upon grounds and undeniable reason and true argument in Gods Wisdom yea argumentation for conviction and confirmation infinitely surpassing and transcending all Logical and artificial argument coming within the compass of human device and learning therefore we conclude that the Wisdom of God though become foolishness unto the world yet doth it contain sufficiencie of power in argument to over-top any Council Synod Synedrion or Assembly composed by humane art and learning And that makes them so fearfull and of such care to guard themselves from the apparition therof For as it is in that way of the devil to propose his temptations from the Letter of the Scriptures thinking to win or subdue Christ thereby So is there sufficiencie of spirit and wisdom in the true interpretation thereof to confound and bring them in the party proposing them to nought And whereas you say There is a thing underneath which cannot be satisfied vvith the divings into the mystery of the Scriptures of truth which phrase as it seems to import cannot be a ●ruth for the mystery of the Gospel is described to be Christ in you the hope of Glory Now this Christ the Son of the Eternal comprehends all things really and eternally good so that there is nothing so low but it is raised up in him nor any thing so high but it is descended in him and so becomes a plain path wheron our God passeth in the wilderness so that dive into him as to lay open this Mystery of the Word of Truth and there is nothing so low underneath nor any thing so high and above that can possibly faile or come short of satisfaction which appertains unto the Saints and Sonnes of God now that hee ascended what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth he that descended is also the same that ascended up far above all heavens that he might fill all things therefore discover the mysterie of the Word and it fills all things to satisfaction for no man hath ascended up to heaven but hee that came down from heaven even the Son of Man which is in heaven So that as you cannot goe above him who is height it self nor below that which is depth it selfe so you cannot hide any thing above or beneath but the mysterie of the Word is the light which finds it out and brings satisfaction therewith for the life the light are one ever in conjunction with Christ from whom nothing is hid Therefore we honour that phrase in the true intent thereof that when you are clouded you vvait and vvhen moved you journey for we know the cloud to be the glory of Israel in the Wilderness that wayless place in point of any of the Nations who cannot take a step therein but onely to the fall of their carkasses yea even of carnal Israel For this cloud is a cloud of witness presenting unto us a record and testimony of the acts and deeds of all the Saints of God Therefore as a pillar remains and abides with us day and night and is a cover in the day not to darken that light and leading of the Angel of his face but to over-shadow us as we are the Virgin of Israel than none of those scorching beams or rayes of that Sun-shine or light of the Nations takes place upon us nor contributes no more to our being than Ioseph that just man according to the law or letter did unto the conception of Mary And in its stay and abode upon our Tabernacle we so wait on God as in exercise in uncovering the Ark of his presence ordering the instruments and glories thereof according to appointment and with Moses turn in unto the Lord without either vale or covering which abides on the heart of carnal Israel when Moses is read unto this day when we with open face behold the glory of the Lord as in a mirrour and are changed into the same image from all that glory of the Ministry of condemnation consisting in the letter unto that exceeding glory of the Spirit wherein we stand with Moses conversing with God face to face as a man talks with his friend And this state and manner of waiting upon God he hath perpetuated in our host wherein according to the prayer of Moses the Lord returns unto the many thousands of Israel for we have the record of them all in this cloud and their order and exercise about the Ark. The Lord hath not left us without the testimony of the motion of the cloud also which he hath in like sort perpetuated unto us and that in the dissipation and scattering of the Nations who are Enemies unto God And we daily find that praier of Moses in use and fulfilling it selfe in us and about us viz. Arise O Lord and let thine enemies be scattered let them also that hate thee fly before thee For we daily have to doe with that people of that spirit amongst whom you now are yea and from the floud unto the worlds end by a spirit of Praier and Prophecie which all the world can never bound nor Herods Stone Seal nor Watch keep in the grave But as it goes before the Disciples into Galilee so it rebukes the Nations and brings the mad people to nought else had you not seen those lye dead before you on the shore in your approach so evidently as now you doe in point of any life or light of Iesus Christ And in this dismal and darksom night which is now upon the world this Cloud is a most firm and stately pillar of fire to give light unto us and according to its motion either by night or by day we advance unto the vanquishing and vexation of the world For the spirit of a Christian knows how to grasp and gripe in the Nations so as to cut off the spirit of Princes and to be a terrour to the Kings of the earth so as Herod and all Israel after the flesh in all their Iewish institutions shall be in trouble A Christian becomes a fool in point of Serpents wisdom in Herods Wisemen and Pharoahs Magicians is a comprehensive thing no less than the proper continent of an omnipotent power who is able to

Christ utter himself against that spirit of the High Priest and orders of carnal Iew and Ierusalem saying Saul Saul why persecutest thou me For the hearing ear and the seeing eye are both alike of the Lord Prov. 20. 12. Paul also felt Christ for the force of the revelation struck him to the ground so as he was astonished at the sight of all the Iewish glory to become earthly and corruptible Paul also tasted how good Christ was therefore he reasoned not or communicated not with flesh and blood for his sustentation and support thinking to have it from other Apostles or any man therefore he went immediatly from Christ to preach having tasted how good he was being that the Son of God was revealed in him Galat. 1. 16. and not out of him as the world imagines And this Tast is to see therefore the Psalmist saith Tast and see how gracious the Lord is Psal 34. 8. Paul also smelt the savour of the good Ointments of Christ or else he had not born his name before Gentiles and before Kings and the children of Israel Act 9. 15. For his name is an ointment poured out therefore the Virgins love him Cant. 1. 〈◊〉 The want of seeing Christ in such respects as these is the cause of desolation in the house or nestling place of all false Interpreters ●u● of which they will not be gathered by the voice and tender compassions of Iesus Christ though he visit them with such sollici●ations as a hen doth her chickens to gather them under her wing yet they will not come into any such unity and safety Again whereas he saith Ye shall not see me henceforth the word henceforth in this place comprehends the time past as well as the time to come So it is taken by the Prophet Isaiah where he prophesies of the Kingdom of Christ with an allusion unto or under the name of David by which name the Son of God i● called Hos 3. 5. Jer. 30. 9. Ezek. 34. 23 24. saying that his government shall have no end but that he shall sit upon the throne and establish it with Iudgement and Iustice from henceforth for ever where he explains the word henceforth to be for ever Is 9. 7. which must comprehend the time past as well as that to come or else it is not ever or for everlasting for there can be no time brought in in which he reigns not who overcomes and triumphs both in life and death Heb 2. 14 15. Rev. 12. 6-10 therefore the word is often doubled for ever and ever Psal 9. 5. Isaiah 3. 8. noting thereby the time past as well as time to come And thus the Prophet Micha understands this phrase where he saith that God will make her that halteth a Remnant and her that was cast far off a mighty Nation and the Lord shall reign over them in Mount Zion from henceforth even for ever where he expounds henceforth to be for ever which comprehends all time past and to come for the wisdom of God was set up and advanced from the beginning no time can be found when that hath not the rule and supremacie Mich. 4. 7. Prov. 8. 22-30 Therefore there is no end of the Kingdom of Christ if we look back we cannot set our thoughts before it and if we look forward we cannot span it out for of his Kingdom and Government there is no end Isa 9. 7. it is for ever and ever As it is said concerning eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil In the day thou eatest thereof dying thou shalt dye as the words are that is if thou look back thou shall appear dead in thine Ancestors and if thou look forward thou art dead in thy Ofspring So in this place ye shall not see me henceforth That is this spirit of false interpretation never saw me to communicate with me in the acknowledging of me as the Son of God in any of the Fathers in timer pa●t who have truly propagated me on the earth and brought me forth Neither doth it now acknowledge me nor approve of me in this my appearance and converse with you nor shall it hereafter and for ever at any time or in any age acknowledge or communicate with me in any of my true offspring when or in whomsoever I appear concerning any of those offices and excellencies peculiar to the blessed Son of God And hence it is that he addes untill ye say the word untill is here of like signification as when it is used concerning Mical Sauls daughter when she mockd David for Dauncing before the Ark when it was brought out of all private and obscure places subject to transmutation and change to be placed in Zion not to remove thence any more when hee put upon himself the Linnen Ephod exercising the Priests office at the sight whereof Michal despiseth David in her heart and for that canse had no childe after untill the day of her death 2 Sam. 6. 11 -23 That is shee never had child after that act Nay she never conceived nor brought forth fruit according to that act and office of David in his rejoycing and glorying onely in the Ark and strength of the Lord but only in that way of the house of her father Saul who trusted in man and sought onely to be honoured among the people 1 Sam. 15. 30. and so shee had never Childe as of the seed of David whom the Lord chose before the house of her Father And so it is said of the Virgin Mary that Ioseph knew her not till shee had brought forth her first born Mat. 1. 26. That is Ioseph never knew her for the conception and bringing forth of that First Borne of God So Christ saith unto his disciples I will be with you till the end of the world Mat. 28. 20. That is look how I have ever heretofore been with that spirit which teacheth the observation of the fulnesse and perfection of my Word in all things so am I with that spirit in whomsoever it appeares for ever And so is this word till to be taken in this place for all tyme you shall not see me henceforth till you say blessed is hee that cometh in the Name of the Lord that is ye shall never see mee or communicate with me to the investing of you into the office of the true Priesthood which is to blesse in the Name of the Lord Deut. 21. 5. 1 Chron. 23. 13. Numb 6. 22 -27. And to blesse out of the House and Habitation of the Lord in opposition to this house of desolation Psalm 118. 25 26. False interpretation of the word of God therefore upon the affirmation and verity of the Son of God never did nor shall invest into the Office and Priesthood of Iesus Christ It never attained unto the skill to Sacrifice and flay the Beast upon the Altar to Crucifie the World unto it self and it self unto the World accounting that the onely Ioy and Glory to be

think they shall escape the wiles and power of the Devill when the arm of flesh fails them whereby they seek to defend themselves for the present sure they think their God will be grown to more power and care over them in and after death or else they will be loath to passe through it but I leave them and in Spirit cleave unto him as being in you who is ever the same allsufficient In whom I am yours Samuel Gorton A Copy of a Letter from the Men called Quakers The Superscription For our Friend Samuel Gorton this deliver Friend IN that measure which we have received which is eternall we see thee and behold thee and have onenesse with thee in that which is meek and low and is not of this world but bears witnesse against the world that the wayes and works thereof are evill and in that 〈…〉 spirit we salute thee and owns that of God 〈…〉 is waiting for and expecting the raising 〈…〉 is un●er the Earth and in the Grave gro●ni●g ●or the removing of the stone which the wise professors hath and doth lay upon that it might not come forth but the time is come and coming for the Angell of his presence to take away that which hinders that the Prisoner may come forth and arise to the glory of him who is raised up to the glory of the Father and hath overcome Hell and Death and all the powers of darknesse and is a spreading his name forth to the nds of the Earth and hath sounded his Trumpet in these parts also and is a beginning his war with Ameleke and the Philistins and Egyptians in this part of the world who are set and setting themselves against the Lord in this the day of his mighty power wherein he will exalt the horn of his annointed and bring down all the fat Kine and Buls of Bashan whose eyes are ready to start out with rage and madnesse against that which is become as a burthensome stone amongst them and is that stone which will break all their imaginaries to peeces and shall become a great mountain which shall bring down the stout hearts of the Kings of Assyria and all their high looks and levell their mountains of wisdome and knowledge and dry up the tongue of the Egyptian Sea and shall make way for the ransomed of the Lord to come to Sion with joy and gladnesse being redeemed from Kindreds Nations Tongues and People by the blood of Iesus which is spirit and life in all those that obey the light which from the life doth come for the life is the light of men and whosoever beleeves in the light which they are inlightned with shall not abide in darknesse but shall have the light of life which light we have obeyed in coming into these parts and we do witnesse the life in the measure given to us whereby we are enabled to encounter with Principalities and Powers and wickednesse in high places and can deny the world and the glory of it and take up his Crosse dayly and follow him in which we witnesse the power of God whereby the World is crucified unto us and us unto the World and in that in ●ur measure we deny our selves and can wait in the eternall counsell which is out of time manifested in time not being hasty but let the Lord alone to do his own worke in ●is own vvay and there can sit down in our rest which is his will and when he moves us then we go and do his will in his power and when he clouds we stand still waiting for the removing of the Cloud and so we know when to journey and when not and herein are we a● rest when our Adversaries are in trouble and in Egyptian darknesse sitted and prepared for destruction which assurealy must fall upon them from the God of 〈◊〉 Friend the Lord hath drawn forth our hearts to this place in much love knowing in the light that he hath a great seed among you though scattered up and down and are as sheep without a shepherd and you are travelling from Mountain to Hill in your wisedome and imaginations the resting place being not yet known nor cannot be known by the highest wisdome of the world but in the deniall of it for there is something underneath which is not nor cannot be satisfied with all the divings into the mystery of things declared in the Scriptures of truth which is the man of Gods portion and was given to that to profit withall that it might be throughly furnished to every good word and work but this is too low a thing for those which are high in their wisdome and knowledge which they can hardly stoop unto that is to become fools that they may be wise that the pure wisdome may dwell with them for evermore But the Lord is come and coming ●o lovell the Mountains and to rend the Rocks of wisdome and knowledge and to exalt that which is low and foolish to the wisdome of the world and blessed shalt thou and all those be who meets him in this his work which he is doing in the Earth and in this place wherein thou now dwellest in setting up the King the Lord of Hosts to reign in righteousness for his tabernacle shall be among men and he vvill dwell in them and vvalk in them and he will be their God and they shall be his people from henceforth even for ever Now to that which thou writes to us to know our minds to stay in these parts ●e are unwilling to go out of these parts if here we could be suffered to stay but we are willing to mind the Lord what way he will take for our staying and if he in wisdome shall raise thee up and others for that end we shall ●e willing to accept of it but what the Master of the Ship will do in the thing we know not they indeaveuring to force him to to enter into bond of 500l to set us ashoar in England which he did at first refuse for which they sent him to prison without Bail and Mainprize as we are informed but since he doth proffer his own bond but they will not at present accept it without security b sides to be bound with him for they are affraid that we should be set ashoar in these parts again therefore they make their Bond as strong as they can but the Lord knows away to break their bonds asunder The Master hath been writ unto and warned that he should not enter into bond which if he did not it would be as a Crown of honor upon his head but if he doth the Lord knows how to defeat themand him too Now what he doth is out of a slavish fear because he would not lie in prison and hinder his voyage but if the bond hinder him not he would have been willing to have delivered us and we should have been willing to have satisfied him which we did proffer him and if he be not