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A54917	Nil novi This years fruit, from the last years root. The souldiers posture, to the right, to the left, faces about, as yee were. The royall maxime, no bishop, no king. The first-fruits of new prelats, amounting to as much as the tythes of old bishops. All summed up in an impartial relation of the partial proceedings, and uprighteous rumors raised against Henry Pinnel, concerning his endeavouring to get a parsonage. Occasioning a sudden glance upon the true resurrection, present perfection, and perfect obedience. Written in a letter to a friend.	Pinnell, Henry.	1654 (1654)	Wing P2278A; ESTC R221490	41,685	60

order minister in the worldly Sanctuary and dispense the Letter but there is Esh dath a fiery law Deut. 33.2 the fire of the law or a law of fire which is said to proceed mimino from his right hand not out of his left hand in the weakness of the letter or wrathful ministration but from his right hand in demonstration and power a law of spirit and life Rom. 8.2 which is the power of God unto salvation Rom. 1.16 Psal 110.2 Isa 2.3 a law converting the soul Psal 19.7 c. the everlasting Gospel which throws down Babylon Rev. 14.6 8. the ministration of this Law belongeth to the Cherubims and Seraphims to those that are of a more fiery refined and spiritualized principle who have been taken up into the third heaven and seen the mystery of truth as it is in Jesus these are called able Ministers of the New Testament not of the letter Psal 104.4 but of the spirit 2 Cor. 3.6 such are a flaming fire Such should all endeavor to be and so Seraphical would I be I wish that I and all that upbraid me had a larger measure of this Ministery that we were able to shew God more clearly to men and bring men more neer unto God He that hath an ear to hear let him hear what the spiritual Ministery of God is in the Church But Cynthius aurem vellet we must speak no more of these things yet the time may come when men will indure sound Doctrine 2 Tim. 4.3 and not give heed to seducing spirits then Parables and Allegories will not be spurned and scoffed at as too Seraphical As men yet love to dally and play with the letter and to cut such a Religion out of the Scripture as will indulge and mince their faults that will keep their own sin and Gods mercy a great way off from them that will form such a Christ without them who can finde no room in their Inne but must be thrust out among their bestial lusts the crafty subtle serpentine Luke 2.7 fox-like thoughts the ambitious proud airy imaginations of men are such and so many that Christ hath not where to lay his head in their hearts Mat. 8.20 The chief Priests generally the chief enemies of Christ and the Scribes could not away with the Parables Allegorical doctrine of Christ 't was so Seraphical that it did scrue winde into their hard hearts it did vex fret and gall their consciences so that his life was little enough to appease their rage Luk. 20.19 Allegories touch the quick and bring things too close and neer home there 's no evil or sin spoken of or against in all the Scripture but an Allegory will make every particular man guilty of it But we love not plain English he that cannot daub with untempered morter and sow soft pillows under mens arms Quid Romae faciet What incouragement can he look for Yea Ob. 3. but you are so immethodical confused and indistinct so blunt and vulgar in your expressions that none of any parts and ingenuity desire or care to hear you But this objection you say came not from Court though not far from it Come whence it will Sol. non bene conveniunt neither so do the witness agree this hath little kin to the former they look as if they would meet in the Antipodes But I pray Sir what method do we finde prescribed in the Scripture did they not all speak as the Spirit gave them utterance are we not to prophesie according to the proportion of faith hath not every man his proper gift let his matter be good and I dislike not the method of any man doubtless orderly proceeding is commendable but whether we must go to Athens or Jerusalem for that form to me is no question at all and that many under pretence of rule and art and method have so minced their Sermons into cippets of curiosity that little of edification hath been to be found in them to you is not strange Master Cradock heretofore in Bristoll deservedly declaiming against the too great niceness of young Scholars and raw preachers had a passage to this purpose There be some that think all divinity and the mystery of Christ and the Gospel is bound up in Schoolmen and Common-place-books and if they can patch up a Sermon or two with Logical definitions divisions and subdivisions c. Oh presently they think themselves brave fellows they have the Systeme and whole body of Divinity alwayes about them as if said he the Mystery of Christ and the Gospel could be carryed from Oxford into the country in a clog-bag Surely he had too much cause to jerk the wanton wits of green-headed Sophisters which are also met with by an honorable and worthy Gentleman thus As men for fear the Stars should sleep and uod And trip at night have spheres supply'd As if a Star were duller then a clod Which knows his way without a guide Just so the other Heav'n they also serve Divinities transcendent sky Which with the edge of wit they cut and carve Reason triumphs and Faith lyes by Could not that wisdom which first broach'd the wine Have thicken'd it with definitions And jagg'd his seamless coat had that been fine With curious questions and divisions But all the doctrine which he taught and gave Was clear as heav'n from whence it came At least those beams of truth which onely save Surpass in brightness any flame Love God and love your neighbor Watch and pray Do as you would be done unto O dark instructions So should Mr. Goffe have done ev'n as dark as day Who can these Gordian-knots undo c. You deny the Resurrection Obj. 4. therefore deserve not any incouragement Prove it Sol. and punish me He deserves not to scape scotfree who is of that opinion There are you say two great men and they no small fools neither who have reported it in your hearing the one no less then a Justice of Peace When you see that worshipful gentl. put him in minde that qui statuit aliquid parte inaudit â alterâ aequum licet statuerit haud aequus fuit A Justice of Peace should have two ears Sen. Teach him some law and more honesty he hath too little of both This is the man that hanged me before he heard me I think he never saw me that concluded peremptorily like a Just if Master Goffe missed the Parsonage yet Pinnel should not have who ever had it He had a Pastor of a flock to prefer who could have left his own sheep for the fleeces of others he might have done it gaine is godliness in some Clerks bibles and covetousness no sin the Justice of Peace would have allowed it I know the man and would name him but for the respects I owe to some of his relations I can produce the letters of two Justices as well known better deserving in their country then he

2.20 1 Cor. 15.10 or ascribe any thing to our selves as they Mat. 25.44 Act. 3.12 13.16 As Christ our Lord Phil. 2.7 submitted to an exinanimation of himself to come down to us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 16.24 25. so should we suffer an annihilation of our selves to go up to him lose our lives to save them Our lives are safer out of sight in Christ and neerer unto heaven then in never so great appearance in us or a name that we are alive While we behold the face of our Cherub we vanish out of our own sight 2 Cor. 3.18 As our head Christ had wings to flye up unto his head which is God Joh. 17.1.5 so have we wings to fly up to our head Rev. 12.14 Isa 40.31 we have the creation and the Scriptures in them Law and Gospel Letter and Spirit History for the rational and Mystery for the spiritual man which as the Armes and wings of the body are placed in contraposition though they be of opposite dispensation yet in service use and end they are concentrick and meet in one in Angels and Cherubims in body and head in Christ and the Saints The Cherubims were set one directly against the other each looking on other Exod. 25.19 20 37.8 9. and both upon the mercy-seat the Law and Gospel those two great configurations of Heaven have a mutual aspect both centring in Christ their body head substance and truth Joh. 1.17 Col. 2.17 The Gospel is a mystery hid from us under veiles and coverings of figures and shadows in the former ages of our fleshly life Col. 1.26 while we are under tutors and governors Gal. 4.1 2. And then the spirit of prophesie in the Saints is enquiring and searching diligently after the time of Grace promised 1 Pet. 1.10 11 12. and the Angels of the first tabernacle who walked in the worldly Sanctuary whose feet touched the earthly things Joh. 3.13 they desired to pry into this mystery but when Christ is revealed in us Gal. 1.16 as the hope of glory Col. 1.27 then are the Law and Prophets fulfilled and all promises performed 2 Cor. 1.20 The Jew bewailes her little sister Cant. 8.8 the Gentiles condole her divorced the Jew groans after the Gentiles conversion the Gentile longs for the Jews recovery and return the Jew grieves to see the Gentile lie in heathenisme and Atheism as without God in the world the Gentile would be glad to see the Jew cast off their whorish habit and attire of an harlot to forsake the traditions of men and ceremonies of Moses and imbrace the faith of the Gospel the Law longs for the liberty of the Gospel Rom. 8.19 c. the Gospel mourns for want of obedience to the Law the Law desires the manifestation of the sons of God the Gospel requires the adoption to be obedient to the Law Relations cannot be void of mutual affections To conclude Christ appears as a Cherub that is as a master over-mastering over-coming and over-ruling all principality and power sin curse and death Col. 2.14 15. As an Angel or Ministering spirit he walked with us on his own feet and washed ours Joh. 13.5.10 15.3 then like an Archangel he is cut off Isa 53.8 from the natural life and walking with men in the flesh lifted up a little higher from the earth upon the cross where like Michael he fought with and overcame the Dragon and his Angels Heb. 2.14 15. then he flyes upward in his resurrection and ascension and like the Cherubims spreads both his wings of divinity and humanity Law and Gospel Letter and Spirit both united in him over the Mercy-seat Rom. 8.1 that there might be no more condemnation to us but that we should have boldness at the throne of grace and finde help in time of our need Heb. 4.16 because our Cherub our Christ appears in the presence of God for us Heb. 9.24 this our Angel doth alwayes behold the face of our Father in heaven Mat. 18.10 whose face is the mercy-seat Psal 4.6 17.15 John 14.8 for like his name Exod. 34.6.7 it is merciful gracious pardoning c. Forasmuch then as all things work together for our good and that by the Creation Law Gospel Letter Spirit c. God intendeth to draw us nearer to himself let us not neglect his great Salvation God gave thy soul brave wings Mr. G. H. P●●●●hant put not those feathers Into a Bed to sleep out all ill weathers 4. Lastly Christ is as a Seraph a fiery flame without any imaginary fashion or forged Idea of the shadow and finite reason and thought of man Though in the dayes of his flesh and after his resurrection he appeared in many forms yet he left all and forsook them at his ascension to the Father by his reduction and resolution into the Godhead disappearing and deserting all visibilities when he delivered up the Kingdome to the Father that God might be all in all Now all Ministrations Ordinances Christ himself our life 1 Cor. 15.24.28 the word of truth by which we were begotten all return into God this is the perfect state of Christ and in this state we are perfected with him Now are we dead indeed unto all that is self and alive onely in and unto God Col. 3.3 this is pure and perfect salvation salvation by fire 1 Cor. 3.15 Heb. 12.28 29. of which none but hypocrites and carnal Gospellers are afraid Isa 33.14 2 Thes 1.8 In this state Christ our Saviour is an everlasting Father Isa 9.6 Fire is the generating and productive principle of all things without fire no prolifical vertue fire also is the consuming and destructive power of all things so Christ is Alpha and Omega the first and the last the beginning and end of all things he will never rest till he burn devour all intermediates Psal 90.2 From everlasting to everlasting he is God everlasting à parte ante a parte post whatsoever is interposed between these two everlastings is but temporal and must pass away meats for the belly and the belly for meat but God will destroy both it and them Compare Gal. 4.3 2 Pet. 3 10. in Greek God will not spare the work of his own hands even the heavens shall wax old and the firmament melt away Those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those Elements and rudiments of the Law by which we were disciplined and taught in our non-age shall be dissolved by the conflagration of the Seraphical or fiery dispensation Gal. 3.19 We read that the Law was ordained by Angels 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I had rather read it Disposed by Angels as it is Acts 7.53 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the disposition of Angels To ordaine implies a magisterial supremacy and Legislative authority which pertaineth onely to Christ in matters of the Church but to dispose of what is ordained is the office of a Steward or Minister appointed thereunto thus the Angels of the lower