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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93709	Sparkles of glory, or Some beams of the morning-star. Wherein are many discoveries as to truth, and peace. To the establishment, and pure enlargement of a Christian in spirit and truth. / By John Saltmarsh. Preacher of the Gospell.	Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.	1647 (1647)	Wing S504; Thomason E1114_1; ESTC R208461	88,386	372

further revealed in Revelations 2. 9. I know thy works and tribulation and poverty c. and ye shall have tribulation for ten dayes this was written to the Church of Smyrna or to all Christians under the figure of that Church which was tribulation prison or bondage and poverty that is while Christians are in their former administrations as in bondage prison poverty looking at all they have as nothing and all former things they were rich in as nothing and now as bondage to a more excellent enjoyment of God This is likewise in the mystery of it the cross of Christ or the fellowship of Christs sufferings crucifyings and death for as Christ crucified all that glorious administration in which he was in the flesh and it all died to a more glorious life even the glory of God the father so every Christian is to take up this cross and to bring his highest and choycest administration to this cross and to have them all crucified to higher discoveries of God this is the knowledge of Christ Crucified or self-denial Many Christians who are sadded darkned in much tribulation as to the administrations they are under and take them for desertions and withdrawings of God when as they are the presence of God upon such administrations making them dark and wither and consume and the bringing in of a richer and fuller glory God in heaven or in a place of distance as to our infirmity MAny Christians in theirconceptions of God andprayings or addresses to Godconsider him as in a local glory and so change theglory of the incorruptibleGod into an image made like to corruptible man God is infinite and all in all and whither shal I go saith the Psalmist from thy spirit or whither shal I fly from thy presence and where is the place of his rest And say not in thy heart who shal ascend into heaven to bring Christ down from above The word is nigh even in thy heart the word saith the Apostle that we preach which word was Christ the eternal Word which was with God and was God And thus the Lord is said to be at hand the Lord is at hand The spiritual Christian knows that all figures of place as of Gods residence as heaven and all such discoveries of God as to place or distance are only as to man and to the infirmities of man and therefore prays not and speaks not to God nor of God as to Place or distance but as if he were in him and about him his right hand embracing him and his left hand under him and in such discovery of God as he hath by faith c. or any such graces and other administrations he worships not God nor considers God as that or that discovery because then he should worship something for God which is not God and as Iohn fall down at the feet of the Angel or some glorious ministration and worship there The carnall and weak christian worships prayes c. and thinks of God as to form figure and place and distance and discoveries of him by graces gifts c. Whereas God is only to be enjoyed in those as in a glass darkly for we have not seen his shape nor heard his voice The Spirituall Sabboth THis Mystery of God was held forth first in the Creation in that of the seventh day which God was said to sanctifie which was no other then the enjoyment of God in the Revelation of himself who is perfect rest and sabboth in his own glory the six dayes being accordingly a figure of the Christian in bondage or under active and working administrations as those of the Law and Gospel are as all forms of worship duties graces prayer Ordinances c. This Sabboth was a sign to the people of God in bondage or under the law and the Lord Jesus in his Active and fulfilling Administration while he was in the flesh was the Antitipe of the six dayes and his entring into glory was that very Sabboth and rest which was the bosome of the Father from whence he came and where he returned and this is the scope of that fourth chap. to the Hebrews and the bosome of the Father is that Sabboth or Rest there remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God and he that hath entred into his rest hath ceased from his works as God did from his that is the Lord Jesus having fulfilled his dayes work as to the law entred into his glory or rest so Christ in that held forth the true Christian Sabboth which was the father as Philip shew us the Father and it sufficeth us there is fulness rest sabboth and sufficiency in the Father or Revelation of God in the Christian So as the Spirituall Christian in the true discovery of God his fulness lives in an eternall every-day sabboth while some live in little more than the bare sign or one day in the week The Gospel as in its own glory and as in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament THe Gospel is everlasting for it is the tydings and Revelation of God in love grace or mercy to his or God manifested in flesh or making his Tabernacle with men This Gospel which is no other then the mystery of Salvation revealed or declared in Spirit to men is cloathed in several administrations as that of the Old Testament and the New the Scriptures of both being the Revelation of heavenly things by earthly or created things or by naturall forms and expressions so as the letter is a parable figure or allegory by which spirituall things are spoken and brought forth amongst men they are they which testifie of Christ hitherto I have spoken to you in Proverbs c. The Scriptures or writings of the everlasting Gospel are the true scriptures as they are the very Image and letter of the mystery of Salvation or of Spiritual things or the mind of God or as they are in that pure and spiritual Order and form of words to truth its self not as they are meerly in their grammaticall construction and sense or common reading which any that understand the Hebrew or Greek may receive and therefore the Scriptures according to such or such interpretations consequences of men are not to be imposed as meer things of faith and fundamentals but so far as the spirit of God reveals them to be that very truth and minde of God in those who receive them else they are received and acknowledged for the Authority and reputation of men not of God therefore Christ told the Pharisees they erred not knowing the Scriptures and yet they had the Scriptures and read them and understood them in the letter but not in the Spirit The Gospel being thus distinguished into the spiritual nature of it and into the administration with which it is cloathed nothing is pure spirituall divine Gospell but that which is light life glory spirit or God revealed whatsoever is of meer

flesh of Christ is to be Baptized all which flesh is not that onely which Christ appeared in but that of his body or members With the baptism that I am baptized with shall ye be baptized That I may fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his bodies sake which is the Church The Baptism of water or of John THe Baptism of water is Johns Ministry unto Christ I indeed Baptize yee with water unto Repentance the Baptism of water was a Legall washing and therefore reckoned amongst things that are Legall The first Tabernacle stood in meats and drinks and divers washings and carnall Ordinances which divers washings are called Baptisms in the Greek The Baptism of Water was therefore in its Ministry administred by Iohn who was a Prophet nearer the more cleer Revelation of Jesus Christ then the rest for a greater Prophet then Iohn hath not risen and therefore this Ministration was administred by him who was a Prophet or one rather upon the account of the Law then the Gospel for he that was least in the Kingdome of God is greater then he The Baptism of Water was not given in Christs Ministery to his Disciples or Apostles who when he sent them out to preach first to the Iews gave them not one word to Baptize the Lord Iesus was Baptized by Iohn the Minister of Water to fulfill righteousness for his the Righteousness of washing which was Legall as Circumcision therefore we are said to be Circumcised with him in Baptism the Baptism of Water was performed by the Disciples and Apostles of Christ in the Name of the Lord Iesus as all other Legall Ordinances were for Circumcision and all was to Christ who was the end of the Law but Iesus Christ himself never Baptized any never was an administrator of it in his own person he Baptized none but his Disciples so as his Disciples Baptized none as his onely Ministration but as from Iohn and as in his Ministration unto the Lord Iesus and as a Ministration which was begun by one who was so eminent a Prophet and so acceptable to Disciples that were weak and Legall The Baptism of Water was more used by those Apostles or Disciples which were Jewish and to the Jews as Peter who had the Apostle-ship of Circumcision and so did Judaize more then by the Apostle who was less a Iew and had not seen Christ in the flesh but in the Spirit and was an Apostle to the Uncircumcision and professed he was not sent to Baptize but to preach the Gospel This Baptism of Water was called a Baptism of Repentance and of Manifestation to Israel because that comming of Christ in the flesh was the first opening of the Mystery of Christ in flesh to those who were under sin and bondage as the Iews and the Gentiles were The Baptism of the holy Ghost or gifts THe Baptism of the holy Ghost or Gifts is that Baptism which is said to be more properly Christs ministration He shall baptize yee with the holy Ghost and with fire The Baptism of the Holy Ghost or Gifts was that Baptism which the Lord Jesus promised his Disciples to fulfill upon them and upon their Ministration Go teach and Baptize all Nations in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and lo I am with you c. or I Disciple those Nations and Baptize them with the Holy Ghost in your ministration for we all know that Apostles and Disciples could not disciple or baptize any who is Paul or who is Apollos and this Ministration of the Holy Ghost or Gifts was to last that Age for so is the Greek not for ever and ever or to the end of the world as is commonly read but to the Age or during the time or for the fulfilling of that ministration The Baptism of Gifts or the Holy Ghost was administred from Christ in the Disciples ministration be Baptized and ye shall receive the gifts of the holy Ghost for the promise is to you and to your children c. which promise is that of gifts or the holy Ghost which was that thing promised by Iohn upon Christs Ministery he shall Baptize with the holy Ghost and was promised by Jesus Christ himself Ye shall be Baptized with the holy Ghost c. and Paul laid his hands on them and they received the holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost fell on them this was a promise in the Prophets too The Baptism of the Holy Ghost or Gifts and fire was in figure Gifts held forth the flowing of a more spirituall Nature or of the Spirit upon those who were true spirituall Disciples and fire was a sign or figure of the power of the Spirit in the Spirituall Disciples burning up and destroying flesh and the body of sin in them even this first creation upon which it fell for it sate upon each of them in fire signifying by its resting upon their flesh what part was designed to loss and purification The fire shall try every mans work of what sort it is if any mans work be burnt he shall suffer loss but he himself shal be saved yet so as by fire The Baptism of Christ THe Baptism of Christ which is his own proper and Spirituall and onely ministration is that by which all true Christians are Baptized into fellowship with him and oneness with him and so becomes wholly washed in the New creature or New man or Baptized into the very Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost of which that Baptism administred in gifts or the Holy Ghost by the Apostles more visibly was a sign The Baptism of Christ who is the Lord that Spirit the Image of the invisible God the quickning Spirit is that one Baptism spoken on in Ephes. 4. One Lord one faith one Baptism for Jesus Christ administring in himself and his own Spirituall Nature can onely make us thus one with himself and with his own body The Baptism of Christ thus Administred in his own Spirituall Nature upon his is that very Baptism by which we are in the fellowship of his sufferings and of his death as many as are baptized into Christ are Baptized into his death and as many as are baptized into Christ have put on Christ so as this Baptism by which we are all Baptized into Christ and put on Christ and his death is spirituall for Christ can not be truely put on nor any thing of his his sufferings death or resurrection but in Spirit and Truth whereby we are truely crucified and dead with him to our selves and the world and alive with him in one spirit the same Spirit that raised up Iesus Christ shall also quicken our mortall bodies The Baptism of Jesus Christ is that whereby we are baptized into his body now