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A89274	Mercies for man. Prepared in, and by Christ, even for such as neither know them, nor him. Discovered, that they might know, and enjoy them. Or a discourse of the interest there is for all men in, and by Christ in the end, and usefulmesse of the beleevers peculiar priviledges and service. In which is also some information about that service to which the grace of God, that bringeth salvation to all men, instructeth, and obligeth the beleever for the good of them all, according to capacity, and opportunity given him. Likewise some directions for, and concerning Christian magistrates. In the opening some instructions arising from the Apostles exhortation to Timothy, 1 Tim. 2.1, 2. Delivered in November 1653. at the Munday meetings at Black-Friers: and because what then was spoken, met with some publick opposition, this is now published for further satisfaction. Written by Thomas Moor, Junior.	Moore, Thomas, Junior.	1654 (1654)	Wing M2605; Thomason E744_1; ESTC R207022	135,708	156

hand to that purpose listen diligently and give earnest need to the still and quiet voyce of the Gospel in which the spirit and power of God is for your direction and protection hearken to those instructions and counsels by what hand soever they be brought to you in which Jesus Christ and the things of him are shewed to you by the Scriptures as the great things of his Law to be heeded and had recourse to continually by you for your direction and helpfulness in all other things and so he glorified or lifted up according to the Apostles word or doctrine as 1 John 4. 2 3 6. John 14. 26. and 16. 13 14. which that you may know and be well acquainted with that by no means they may be let pass or slip away from you under another and false apprehension of them Seach the Scriptures diligently your selves whether those things be so as those Act. 17. 11. And that you may have more true profit and usefulness of the Scriptures in your search of them whose profit even to the making wise to salvation in every respect is best attained and met with through a mindefulness and exercise of faith in Christ Jesus the sum of them according to the light of instructions and capacity given us 2 Tim. 3. 15. that therefore you may meet with more of the utility of the Scriptures to the furnishing you with wisdom in every matter then the Scribes and Phatisees or the scornful Rulers of that people in Jerusalem did though they were very Zealous and expert in the Scriptures take notice of that rock obstruction or hinderance that deprived them of such profit in their search of Scriptures that you may avoid it see John 5. 39 40. compared with Isa 28. 12 14 16. they did scornfully and wilfully against evident light and demonstration of the Spirit in the Scriptures refuse to come to close with and own Christ the sum of the Scriptures testimony as therein testified yea they were so scornful that though God had appointed and directed them to have their recourse to that foundation laid in Sion the life in Christ from the beginning according to the declarations thereof come forth for their right understanding and usefulness of all the Law and the Prophets and so directed them to that as the center of all Scriptures and as that rest wherewith they might cause the weary to rest yet they would not but were scornful and conceited of their wisdom strength and holiness and therefore took the word of God in peices and presumed to finde out the minde of God and give the sence of every Scripture of every Law and Statute by it self or without such making use of that way or rule to which they were by God directed yea those great things of his Law to which they should have brought all other things and parts thereof to have been helped in finding out the sence and usefulness of them by comparing them with and understanding them according to the light and instruction of that key of knowledge those of all other things were flighted and put from them as things of least concernment accounted strange things Hosea 8. 12. The Vision of all a sealed Book Isa 29. 11. and so they made the word of the Lord to themselves Line upon line precept upon precept here a little and there a little that so while pretending to be zealous and strict in observing that rule yet they in such their walkings or going on fell backward were broken snared and taken and for their scornfulness God threatened to send or permit to them such kinde of teachers Isa 28. 10 11. and leave them to such blindeness as Mat. 13. 11 12 15. Take heed therefore of that great evil and seek to be well furnished with understanding in that key of knowledge the testimony of Jesus and to learn skil to use it as by it you are taught refuse not the reproofs of instruction that by this wisdom of God Jesus Christ as declared in the Gospel are brought to you better it is for you now to fall down under those bands and not to break those cords but suffer them to have their operation to the humbling you before him then to make your selves of that number that shall after be bound in everlasting chains and fetters by that Word and Gospel the reproofs of which were proudly rejected by them and by that despised people that were instruments sent now to perswade them You have much need of wisdom in the knowledge of Christ and of much skill to make use of it that you may put on the consideration of the Lord Jesus Christ as to every matter It 's true every wise and gracious man is not meet nor every way furnished to be a Governour in this present World and it 's as true that an unwise man in the knowledge of God in Jesus Christ an ungracious man will not be a just Ruler or good Magistrate He that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God and so he shall be as the clear shining after rain and as the light of the morning when the Sun riseth even a morning without Clouds 2 Sam. 23. 3 4 5. Now though Davids house be not so with God this was not found perfectly in him or Solomon and if not in them then in no mortal man whose breath is in his nostrils to be expected but it shall be fully verified and found true onely in that Son of David The sure mercies of David concerning whom and of the everlasting righteous and peaceable Kingdom in and by him the everlasting Covenant was made with David as comparing with this Isa 55. 3 4. with Acts 13. 34. and in this was all his desire and salvation though in this day he received it not but shall as certainly when it comes as they that then survive Though this is true I say That the truth of this will be onely perfectly found in him at whom David also had an especial eye yet this also is true That the way for Rulers now to be directed and strengthened to rule justly and so as they may be a refreshing and mercy to the Nations over whom they are set accorto such a measure as they are capable is to set the fear of God before their eyes and rule according to the light instructions and guidance thereof 'T is a true saying of the Preacher Better is a poor and wise Child then a King that is never so old setled in his Kingdom or in yeers or in policy after the wisdom of this World or in whatever other considerations besides that yet is foolish and without understanding in the things of Christ and so knows not the God of his Fathers Ecles 4. 13. This therefore is the main thing to be desired for them and their being furnished with it will tend much to the good of all men and particularly to such benefit and enlargement to Gods people under them as may be much to the commodity and profit of all men amongst whom they live and is therefore so good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour to be desired for them Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth FINIS

in and according to godliness and honesty And there after some several significations of quietnesse and peaceablenesse briefly hinted p. 88 Its especially applied in such a sense as opposed to war strife or contention p. 90 And so the beleever in and according to godlinesse and honesty is to lead his life quitly and peaceably 1 With reference to those in authority over him p. 91 2 Towards all men p. 95 3 Especially one with another p. 98 2 How the Beleevers leading a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty tends so much to the good of all men That shewed in two things 1 It tends much to the beleevers own advantage profit and furniture for the good of others p. 102 2 It tends to the adorning the Name and Doctrine of God our Saviour amongst and before them And that shewed in divers particulars p. 104 2 That therefore God likes it wel in and requires it of those whom he sets in place of Authority that they should all of them have a special eye at this That his people that worship him and would live quietly in the Land may lead a quiet and peaceable life under their protection and government p. 110 c. 3. What those things are in generall that will tend to this and which are therefore required of Governours that Beleevers may lead such a life 1 They are to afford them liberty and protection in such liberty for quiet and peaceable worshipping of God and endeavouring the good of others as the grace of God by Christ their Great Law-giver instructeth them p. 113 And by way of removing some scruple in this 't is shewed That they are to let the Tares and Wheat grow together till the end of the world and so to afford that liberty and protection in that liberty to all that pretend to desire to seek and worship God in Christ according to his Word or Scriptures if under such pretence they do not grosly blaspheme or cast off the outward acknowledgement of that name or do that which directly tends to the injury or damage of others in name estate or life or move sedition and so they shal afford such liberty and protection to all that are quiet in the Land p. 115 2 They are to give unto them those things that are just and equal by an equal distribution of Justice and thorowly executing judgement between a man and his neighbour p. 121 3 They are to seek peace and pursue it among those under their Government and with other Nations As much as is possible live peaceably with all men p. 122 Some scruples against this raised from some mis-apprehensions of Prophecies answered in which is shewed That in the Wars and Commotions of the latter days towards and yet before the end Saints as Saints and for their Kingdome are not to be actors in them but after that consideration only spectators of them though after other considerations as Members of the Nation where they live they may in some cases act with the rest that they are part of the sorrows evils or judgements of the latter dayes and that though God occasionally brings forth much good by them to the restraint and hinderance of bodily Persecution yet they are accompanied with more abounding of Spiritual iniquity And that though these Judgements and Battels be of the Lords permission and gracious ordering and such as in which he begins to stain the pride of the glory of such as have lifted up the Horn against him yet the instruments for the stirring up the Nations to them are unclean spirits p. 124 c. And that those Prophesies of the totall destruction of all enemies and bringing down their power and giving the Kingdomes under the whole Heavens to the Saints is not to bee accomplished till the Resurrection of the just and so not till the Lord himself come and bring all that sleep in Jesus with him and then it shall be accomplished together by a wonderfull and more immediate putting forth of the Arm of the Lord yea all his Saints from first to last shall then have that honour with him and no other p. 128. Some use of these considerations p. 132 4 What that is that will especially furnish Governours to the doing those things required of them and so is especially to be desired for them And that is showed to be wisdome in the knowledge of Christ and the glory of God as appearing in the face of him as to us declared in the Gospel p. 138 The Reader is desired to correct these faults escaped in the Printing as follow PAge 5. line 25. adde of p. 6. l 7. r. have p. 10. l. 11. r father p. 18. l. 22. blot out may p. 20. l. 38. r. provision p. 28. l. 10 r. them p. 31. l. 32. r. the view p. 37. l. 5. r. yea p. 43. l. 18. r according p. 50. l. 32. r. that it is p. 51. l. 9. r. come p. 56. l. 39. r. hating p. 57. l. 18. r distraction p. 58. l. 11. r. raising l. 27. r. enjoyed p. 59. l. 1. blot out the first in p. 61. l. 20. r. his l. 30. adde of p. 62. l. 33. blot out to p. 63. l. 4. r. given r. become l. 15. r. while l. 33. r. Mediator p. 64. l. 11. r. every p. 67. l. 36. r. taken me out of p. 68. l. 28. r. distraction p. 75. l. 13. r. propounds p. 82. l. 32. r. as p. 85 l. 35. r. children p. 90. l. 25. r. fruit p 93. l. 10. r. an l. 30. r. Kings l. 32. r. 2 King p. 96. l. 15. to 2 Tim adde 2. p. 97. l. 19. blot out not p. 116. l. 15. r. persons p. 130 l. 3. to desire adde and pray p. 140. l. 6. r. hereby on the top of p. 33. for 35. r. 33. All mens Interest by Christ in the end and usefulnesse of Beleevers peculiar privileges and service Shewed in the opening some Instructions arising from 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. I exhort therefore that first of all Supplications Prayers Intercessions and giving of Thanks be made for all men for Kings and for all that are in Authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty THe Apostle Paul having committed the faithfull Word of the glorious Gospel of Christ that great Commandement Even the word which was preached from the beginning but now more fully come forth and declared 1 Tim. 6. 14. with 1 Joh. 1. 1 2. and 2. 7 8. which was more immediately revealed to him and committed to his trust for more peculiar service therein from the Lord Jesus as 1 Tim. 1. 1. 11. with Gal. 1. 11 12. and Eph. 3. 1 9. He having committed this Word or Commandement unto Timothy and with it this charge To hold it fast and keep it by the Holy Ghost which was given unto him 2 Tim. 1. 14 15. Faithfully to preach it in season out of season to doe the work of an Evangelist

c. Chap. 4. 1. 5. To keep it without spot unrebukeable unto the appearing of Jesus Christ 1 Tim. 6. 13 14. And to that purpose To charge some that they did teach no other Doctrine nor give heed to fables c. And to abide or stay long at Ephesus for the doing this That so such charges might be insinuated and charged home not by rash and hasty censures and restraints by a compulsive Law as the Kings of the Gentiles exercise Lordship over them Mat. 20. 25. 28. and 23. 8. 11. But by holding forth the faithful word amongst them and that with long-suffering and doctrine as hath been taught and going before others therein in all things shewing himselfe a patterne c. as 2 Tim. 4. 1 2 5. and 2. 24 25. Tit. 1. 9 11. and 2. 1. 7. The Apostle having I say committed this Commandement and charge to Timothy Chap. 1. 3 4 15 18. That according to the Prophesies that went before on him and by that furniture of Instruction Gifts and Grace conferred on him he might war a good warfare holding faith and a good conscience c. this service to which he was furnished and appointed being weighty and that it might be blessed and succesful He doth therefore in these two verses that we have read exhort that first of All in the first place alwayes and in order of nature as the first thing in and unto All his service not onely himselfe but All his Brethren with him that have their faces Sion-ward whose hearts joyne in the promoting and furtherance of such service should have their eye or heart directed unto God for Accommodation Preservation Blessing in and unto such service as he appoints them too Even as the eyes of a servant are to the hand of his master and of a maid to the hand of her mistresse Psal 123. 1 2. And that this is the occasion end and scope of this exhortation appears not onely by considering the word therefore as it hath relation to the latter end of the foregoing Chapter but also by comparing herewith the 7. and 8. verses of this Chapter which also clearly shew the word Therefore in the first verse to have relation especially and directly to the 18. and the beginning of the 19 verses of the first Chapter In that 7. and 8. verses of this second Chapter the Apostle declaring his owne Ordination Appointment and Furniture to be one of the prime Apostles and Teachers of the Gentiles in the faith and verity of the Testimony of God concerning Christ mentioned in the 4 5 and 6. verses as now come forth and committed to them he Therefore on this occasion and to the end his ministration may be blessed profitable and succesfull doth will or desire that men pray every where lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting So here having commit ted this Commandement and Charge unto Timothy as one of those secondary Ministers who having beleeved and been reconciled and received the word of reconciliation in believing by Jesus Christ and mediately through their word as Joh. 17. 20. with 2 Cor. 5. 17 18 19 20. were to carry on the same work holding fast the platform of sound Doctrine which they had received from them and so building upon and according to the foundation of Doctrine as laid by them who as wise master-builders had laid the foundation 2 Tim. 1. 13 14. Tit. 1. 11. 15. 1 Cor. 3. 10. He exhorts that first of all prayers be made c. And in this exhortation to the making Prayers and Thanksgivings thus occasioned and to this end he exhorts that the said Prayers and Thanksgivings be made for All men Now in That the Apostle in such an exhortation to Prayers and Thanksgivings thus occasioned and to such an end That the servants of Christ in the Gospel might war a good warfare c. as foreshewed doth exhort That Supplications Prayers Intercessions and giving of Thanks be made for All men It doth fully imply and signifie to us this note of Instruction That the service or warfare not onely of the first Apostles but that also to which Timothy and so the succeeding secondary Ministers in the Gospel of Christ are furnished and appointed It was and is to be exercised Amongst and for the good of All men indefinitely and generally where ever by Gods providence they are set Like as John the forerunner of Christ was sent for a witness to beare witness of the light That all men through him that light witnessed by him might beleeve Joh. 1. 7. And our Saviour himselfe in his owne personal Ministration while he was in the world was so the light of the world Joh. 9. 5. Though in respect of that his personal Ministration he was primely sent to the lost or scattered sheep of the house of Israel Mat. 15. 24. and yet to All of them Act. 3. 26. And therefore limited his Disciples Commission while he was on earth Mat. 10. 6. yet he was therefore a Minister of the Circumcision not onely therein to confirme the promises of God made to the Fathers but also that thereby the Gentiles might glorifie God for his mercy as it is written For this cause I will confesse to thee among the Gentiles or Heathen I will sing unto thy name Againe he saith Rejoyce yee Gentiles with his people and land him all ye Nations Rom. 15. 8 9 10 11. So those his first Apostles or Messengers were by him sent into the world as the Father sent him in respect of his Mission for Ministration of the Gospel Joh. 17. 18. And after his Resurrection as his Ambassadors their Commission was enlarged by him on the Account of his owne as to the extent of his Ministration or plaine preaching the peace he had made being enlarged by the Father Mat. 28. 18 19. They were to goe into All the world and preach the Gospel to every creature To preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable Riches of Christ in such manner as before it had not been named to which they were immediately furnished and commissionated and to make All men see c. Mark 16. 15. with Eph. 3. 8 9. and Rom. 15. 15 21. And this grace and Apostleship they received for obedience to the Faith among all Nations for his name Rom. 1. 5. And therefore according to the Commandement of the everlasting God they were to make known the mystery as so revealed and that out of the Scriptures of the former Prophets unto them All that they might beleeve Rom. 16. 25 26. And that they might make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery which had been hid from generations past As they were to baptize the Nations with their word or doctrine as the first and maine part of the work to which they were sent 1 Cor. 1. 17. sprinkling or dropping that on them as Isa 52. 15. Deut. 32. 1 2 3. with Rom. 15. 21. So also together there with as an outward seale of the

doth spare any time in this naturall life such vessels of wrath as are wholly fitted and given over to destruction though sometimes some he may for wise and holy ends as Rom. 9. 22. yet it is generally true The forbearance of the Lord is salvation and it is better to be A living Dog than a dead Lion Secondly The beginnings or first comings forth of his judgements of that nature have alwayes a merciful tendency to warne and admonish to jealousie of themselves and turning to him that so the full coming forth of them may be prevented Hos 5. 15. Amos 4. 12. Rom. 11. 11. And further to instruct us to this see the frame of spirit found in those holy men of God that well knew his mind when God bad Moses let him alone that his wrath might waxe hot against that people to consume them yet he besought the Lord again for them and the Lord was intreated of him and repented of the evill he thought to do unto them Exod. 32. 9 10 11 14. So in those instances in Jeremy after he was forbidden to pray for the people Chap. 7. 16. yet see how he makes supplication for them Chap. 10. 23 24. yea after he is forbidden again Chap. 11. 14. yet see with what earnestnesse and affection he makes his prayer again for them Chap. 14. 7 8 9. yea God himselfe after he had forbidden him the third time Chap. 14. 11. yet instructs him to teach them to humble themselves before him and acknowledge their iniquity and turne to the Lord in the latter end of that Chapter with whom they might finde mercy and healing of their backslidings in turning according to the movings and leadings of his grace as Chap. 3. 12. 14. 22. Though persisting in their stubbornnesse his minde could not be turned towards them Chap. 15. 1 2. Prayers then are to be made for all men in a time when God may be found as is shewed We come secondly to consider by whom they are to be made this is not expresly answered or spoken to in this verse but in verse 8. it is which gives us occasion here to consider it And it is there answered in an indefinite and generall terme That men pray every where And that may be understood First either with relation to the foregoing verse for the understanding the word Men There Paul tells us he was appointed a Herauld or Cryer a Teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity and here he wills therefore that men every where pray c. And so by men we may understand all men every where even among the Gentiles to whom he was sent as Act. 17. 30. God now by his Gospel commandeth all men every where to repent Yea to seek the Lord verse 27. So here Paul proclaims liberty and therefore also admonisheth and calls upon them all and every where to make prayers to God by Jesus Christ to seek him while he may be found and call upon him while he is neer as Isa 55. 6. That so they receive not this grace of God in sending the Gospel among them in vain as 2 Cor. 6. 1 2. Or secondly it may be understood with relation to the following verses for understanding the word Men. In those following verses 9 10. He addes this exhortation to the women also that they demean themselves as women professing godlinesse and not onely amongst or towards all men but also in the Church or Generall Assemblies of Beleevers of which he signifies they were whom he so requireth or exhorteth Understand men in the 8. verse equivalently and as opposed to women verse 9. And then it is all men indefinitly and generally unto whom these instructions and exhortations were primely and especially dedicated to prepare instruct and furnish them to seek the good of others that is men professing godlinesse the whole Church the Assemblies or Fellowships of Beleevers they all and every one of them men and women are to joyn together in both Prayers and Prophesyings for the good of all But in the publick Assemblies of them together in one place that men only speak as the mouth of the whole in presenting Supplications Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings for all men as well as in crying or proclaiming Gospel to them or teaching them in such general Assemblies verse 10 11. with 1 Cor. 14. 34 35. yet women also are to be teachers of good things to others especially the aged women and that as their greatest ornament Tit. 2. 3 4. yea they may and it s commendable in them not onely joyne with men but be fellow-helpers and labourers with them in the Gospel in both instructing and helping forward with their prayers for the good of all men and that with and among even in some private Societies and meetings of their brethren though not every where as may be seen in comparing Phil. 4. 3. with Act. 1. 13 14. However then they are of the number by whom Supplications Prayers Intercessions and giving of Thanks are to be made for all men though not by them as the mouth of the rest in every place not in such general or publick Assemblies where the Church or whole Congregation is met together in any one place yet they with the rest as before and so all Beleevers not Timothy or some prime ones amongst them only but all indefinitely and together yea one and other of them that have knowne and beleeved the great love of God in Christ to manward are especially required and called upon to pray for others even for all men and according to this two-fold reading of vers 8. this we shal finde plentifully in other Scriptures That all men every where and in all Ages have an effectual doore opened for their liberty or allowance afforded them and are exhorted and called upon to seek and pray unto God and that more especially now since the full coming forth of the Gospel in the name of Christ but that it is especially required and expected of Beleevers who only are and are therefore furnished with knowledge and tasts of his graciousnesse to manward the love of Christ instructing and constraining them to make their prayers unto God in the name of Christ for others also even for all men To the first part of this Proposition see Act. 17. 27 with Isa 55. 1-4-6 7. God furnishes with all the mercies of this natural life that men in and by them might be led to seek him c. and by his Gospel more strongly obligeth and calleth them with the Declaration of his Sonne by whom the way is made for them and who is given for a witnesse to the people to seek the Lord while he may be found to call upon him while he is near even such as are walking in their wicked wayes harbouring their unrighteous thoughts labouring for that which is not Bread are there graciously invited and admonished thereto upon such good ground so equivalent to this that men pray every where without wrath

and tendencie even for those against whom directly they are made and for the good of all men generally such prayers as in which Gods Judgements to the blasting of them and confounding them in their evil wayes his breaking and crossing them therein his wrath or the testimonies of his displeasure to be testified against them are earnestly desired are yet in respect of their end and tendency for their good and the good of all for as much as the end of the Judgements and breakings desired against them and so consequently of such desires of them is the sealing home admonition and instruction to them that they may bee ashamed and turne from the evils reproved and that others also may by Gods Judgements on them and crossing of them learne to beware of such evils Of this nature those prayers and heavie imprecations against the Families of Edom in the first place Moab Ishmael c. and against all that joyned with them in their consultations against his people Psal 83. Doe to them as to the Midianites as to Jabin and Sisera Persecute them with thy Tempests make them afraid with thy Storme fill their faces with shame ver 16. that they even those very people while thy hand is lifted up and thy Judgements on them and the survivors of them in all the opportunities given them may seek thy name O Lord Let them be confounded and troubled for ev●r yea let them be put to shame and perish that is in their consultations and enterprises against his people mentioned in the former part of the Psalm to what end are these sad imprecations that men they and all others in whose sight Gods Judgements are may know that thou whose name alone is Jehovah art the most high over all the earth compare 1 King 8. 60. with Joh. 17. 21-23 that so the inhabitants of the world may learne righteousnesse when his Judgements are upon the earth yet that the particular Persons Families or Nations on whom his hand is lifted up may see and pour out their Prayer when his chastening is upon them according to the desire and expectation of God whence it is a note stil of greater wickednesse if they wil not doe so Isa 26. 8 9-11-16 Doubtlesse if we diligently consider and compare that Psal 83. as also compared with the Scriptures fore-cited with Rom. 9. 13. and that with Mal. 1. 2 3 4 5. and Obadiah and Ezek. 35. 36. 1-7 where the execution of those Judgements desired against them in their evil purposes and wayes in that 83 Psalme is denounced and threatned in Ezek. Obadi and declared as done in Mal. 1. Rom. 9. we shal see clearly that that hatred testified against the whole Family of Esau or Edom in such their evil wayes in respect of the first end and tendency of it in either the imprecations or executions of it was not tending to their eternal destruction though to their perishing for ever in those enterprises and that there might be none remaining of that Family or Kingdome in that state and posture in which they had some power and opportunity for accomplishing their enterprises as Psal 83. 17. with Ezek. 35. 9. Obad. 18. Mal. 1. 4. But on the other hand that they and the residue of the Heathen might be ashamed and seek the Lord c. compare Psal 83. 16-18 with Ezek. 35. 9-12 36. 7. And to the same end also after God had thus testified his displeasure and executed his hatred against them in their evil wayes he so raised up Saviours on Mount Sion sent Ambassadours with termes of Peace by the Gospel as coming from Christ exalted to Edom and all the Heathen that now they might be judged in righteousnesse according to that Gospel by which therefore he first admonished them all and in every place to repentance Obad. 21. with Act. 17 30 31. and therefore did he raise up the tabernacles of David in the Dispensation of Christ in and by his Apostles that they might poss●sse the remnant of Edom that before-hated people and of all the other Heathen Nations against whom those imprecations and Judgements Psal 83. Ezek. 35. 36. upon whom by the grace of the Gospel his name is called and out of whom a people gathered and preserved or set amongst them for his Name that the residue of men even all the Gentiles might seek the Lord. Compare Amos 9. 11 12. with Act. 15. 14 15 16 17. Likewise those more grievous imprecations prayers for and threatning of Judgements of a higher and worse nature upon the house of Israel the beloved people as considered in their evil purposes and wayes against the more plentiful meanes and grace afforded them that were executed in the beginnings of them in and at the time of the Babylonian Captivity and more fully when their sinne was grown ful in the rejecting of the Gospel in and at the time of the destruction of their place and Nation by the Romans which was prayed for and threatned against them they persisting in and going on farther to contract and commit those iniquities against which they were denounced Psal 69. 22 23 24 25. Isa 6. 9-11 13. 29. 10. In which God is said for their great ungodlinesse as before concerning Edom so in these Judgements on his peculiar people to hate his heritage Jer. 12. 8. to abhor the excellency of Jacob and hate his Palaces Amos 6. 8. concerning this the Apostle propounds the question Rom. 11. 11. telling us That now the generality of that people or Nation before so peculiarly loved even all that were not chosen and pulled out from having fellowship with the rest in that rejection of Christ at so high a rate through the grace of God proclaimed and extended unto them all to that purpose they even all the residue were now given up to that fearful blindnesse and Judgement according to those Prophesies and to those Prayers or Imprecations of David fore-cited to which he alludes his Question concerning them upon this Declaration is Have they stumbled hath God given them over to this in part for it was not yet in full as vers 25. then indeed there wil be no remedy but hath God done this even in these beginnings of Judgements of Reprobation and that accotding to those imprecations in David hath God done it to this end and so consequently was this the first end or intention of David in making such intercession against Israel that they should fall Did God intend in these beginnings of such fearefull Judgements or did David intend in praying for them or therein desire their eternal and everlasting destruction by them And in answer to this question he saith God forbid farre be it from us to entertaine such a thought but on the other hand God hath suffered them in part to fall and through their fall occasioned the bringing Salvation to the Gentiles the end of both is to provoke them to jealousie to admonish them to be jealous of

adoption of children but that done in Christ that this might be done was done for all them that were under the Law and who those are see Rom. 3. 19. though under it as a testament all Covenant were only all Israel after the flesh yet under the condemnation penalty and curse of it and so by it declared and concluded were all the world for what the Law saith it saith to them that are under the Law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God By one man sinne entred into the world and Death by Sinne for that all have sinned Rom. 5. 12. Compare that with ver 18. As the disobedience of one was unto or upon all in the first publique man to condemnation so the righteousnnesse of one is unto or upon all in the second publique man unto justification of life his one righteousnesse hath so prevailed with the Father that he is justified in the nature and roome of all That one dyed for all is accepted with the Father as if all had dyed 2 Cor. 5. 14. that they might live and to that end live that after this Grace appeares they might not henceforth live to themselves but to him that dyed for them and rose againe 2 Cor. 5. 15. So that in Jesus the second publick Person the whole nature is delivered from the first condemnation and judgement The truth and verity of which is proved in that Rom. 5. 19. from this reason For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners namely in their particular persons and that is so many as ever came to have being from him even from the beginning verse 13 14 which fully shews That that offence was unto or upon the whole nature in him as the publick Man to condemnation before any of the individuals had their particular beings from him seeing there needs no other work or medium on their part but deriving beings from him to make them sinners in their own persons Even so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous even in their particular persons by way of imputation and application of the Righteousnesse of another to them Rom. 3. 22. 4. 3 4. And that is so many as receive that abundance of grace testified in that already done in Christ for men and that gift of righteousnesse by faith verse 17. and so come to have being in him in beleeving on his name That Righteousnesse that is unto All it comes upon All that beleeve even in their particulars which fully shews that one Righteousnesse was unto or upon the whole nature of man as men considered in him the second publick Man to the justification of life while all were out of him seeing there needs no other work or medium on their part no discovery or receite of any peculiar grace or gift of grace for them while sinners and enemies that was not for others nor any thing else is requisite for any one of this nature of man to make them righteous in their particulars but a receiving by faith that true in Christ for and towards them as men and sinners with the rest even that abundance of grace that love of God to Manward Tit. 3. 4. Rom. 5. 6 8. and that gift of righteousnesse The Son of God sent the Saviour of the world Joh. 3. 16. and 4. 14. Therein they are made righteous by the imputation and application of the righteousnes of another to them By him all that beleeve are therein through his name justified from all from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses Act. 10. 43. 13. 39. which shews the truth of Justification Righteousnesse perfect in him for them as men and sinners considered that so in beleeving in him without the works of the Law or any other medium it might be received by any of that nature the whole nature is justified and acquit of that first disobedience and so of the guilt or condemnation of that sinfulnes in them as meerly and necessarily derived from it In that he in the common nature and in the room of them all as the second publick man is justified for them In his Resurrection he was taken from the prison and from the judgement Isa 53 8. And this so verily and vertu●lly for them all That the Father now judgeth no man but hath committed all judgement to the Son Joh. 5. 22. He doth not go to Law or proceed to Judgement with men according to that Law and Judgement by which without a Saviour they stood as condemned before him under which Christ was made for them Though men still according to his Ordinance passe through the first mortality and death as the fruit of sin yet not as the due and proper wages thereof and therefore shall not perish in that death he having taken out the sting and poyson that would have made it destructrive by his coming and passing through it and so abolished it 2 Tim. 1. 10. nor according to that Judgement The truth of which appears not onely in these serious and full Assertions of it but likewise by divers arguments or reasons used by the Scripture to evince it As First The nature of all present and eternal condemnations in the Scripture They are not because the fathers have eaten sowr grapes and the childrens teeth are thereby necessarily set on edge but every one for his own proper iniquity Ezek. 18. 2-4 no man condemned or abiding under the wrath of God for present or shall be eternally condemned meerly because he was simple or in darknesse or because he was filthy and poluted but because he loved his simplicity when the wisdome of God was oft and long reproving him Prov. 1. 22 23 24. c. When light came they loved darknesse rather Joh. 3. 19. Because in thy filthinesse was lewdnesse or stubbornesse and that thus evidenced and of this nature I have purged thee and thou wast not purged Ezek. 24 13. They hardened their own hearts wilfully when he spake in his Spirit by the hand of the Prophets Therefore came there a great wrath upon them from the Lord Zech. 7. 9. 11 12. And this could not have been the nature of condemnations present or eternall neither had the world been capable of sinning sins of that nature as for which they are now charged and under condemnation if Christ had not done for them the things mentioned in this Text given himself a Ransome for them and become a Mediator and by vertue thereof a Testimony in due time unto them See our Saviour so reasoning Joh. 15. 22. 24. If he had not done that for them which never man did or could do namely redeem his brother or give to God a Ransome for his soul Psal 49. 7. yea if also he had not spoken to them preached by his Spirit to their spirits in the means he used They had not known or been capable of sins after this consideration as now they are charged on them

truth is not plainly manifested but one thing spoken and another meant or the meaning locked or sealed up from us under other expressions contrary to 2 Cor. 4. 1 4. when the pen of the Scribe especially in those things main and fundamenttal is rendered as vain and too empty to give his sence and meaning and yet men pretend wisdom and that they have the Law of the Lord with them Jer. 8. 8 9. This Vision of all being a sealed book upon this account it 's affirmed of such Their whole fear and worship though they honour him with their lips is taught by mens precepts and therefore not right worshipping The reason of such an Assertion concerning the whole worship meerly on this account is this The summe of the Gospel being hid they are lost or out of the way and cannot have any right understanding or usefulness of the instructions of the word of the Lord as to their worship of him having rejected the summe and fundamentals of it and that in which the fellowship of the Spirit is to be met with for opening the rest They have therein rejected the word of the Lord and what wisdom is in them Jer. 8. 8 9. 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. And this is the reason of their roeling and erring in all things hard to be understood they are unlearned and unstable 2 Pet. 3. 16. that is not having learned Christ aright and so all truth as it is in Jesus that Vision of all or not attending and waiting to learn and have the usefulness of all truth according to their needs and capacities through the knowledge and usefulness of that summe of the Gospel the testimony of God concerning him as Isa 28. 10 11 12 14 16. John 6. 45 46. Eph. 4. 21. They therefore presently pervert those things in the Scriptures hard to be understood and then also to frame their apprehensions in every thing to such pervertings of the Scriptures in things hard they pervert all other Scriptures to their own destruction These are such ungodly ones as yet have a form of godliness but deny the power resist and oppose the truth as it is in Jesus The Father is not rightly honoured or worshipped by them The true Worshippers worship the Father in Spirit and truth John 4. 23. The truth of all types promises and former revelations of God to men in and according to which the Father is to be worshipped is Christ Jesus Phil. 3. 3. The testimony of Jesus as now come forth is to us the Spirit of prophesie through and according to which the Father and Son God in Christ is to be acknowledged believed in and worshipped by us Rev. 19. 10. And thus our Saviour explicates that John 4. 23. according to these two Scriptures compared in John 5. 22 23 24. The Father judgeth no man that is otherwise then as follows but hath committed all judgement to the Son to this end that all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father that now in honouring the Son as come forth and glorified in our nature through sufferings they may therein truely acceptably honour or worship the Father And for further opening how and wherein the Son is rightly honoured and so the Father in him he addes He that heareth my word that revelation of the Father that he was delivered to death for our offences raised for our justification as declared in the Gospel giveth and through and according to it beliveeth on him that sent me he hath ever lasting life c. Therefore believers are exhorted to hold fast the believing remembrance of the things heard from the beginning the word of the beginning of Christ and to have recourse thereto as to that Spirit or Unction it being the immediate birth or off-spring of the Spirit it self and so Spirit according to that rule John 3. 6. His name an oynment poured forth Cant. 1. 2. for understanding all things for preserving from every evil word and work for direction and furniture to all service and suffering 1 Cor. 15. 1 4. 2 Tim. 2. 7 8. 1 John 2. 20 24 27. And therein and so they shall be found exercising themselves to godliness Honesty signifies righteousness equity or justice in our demeanour towards all men and that such as in which there is chastity or sincerity to the main design for which we are set in the world purity of heart and cleanness of hands in prosecuting the good of all men working righteousness or walking righteously in all our conversation with and amongst them as Psal 15. and 24. Isa 33. 15. According to the teachings of that grace of God that bringeth salvation to all men and so in like expressions it is joyned with living godly in that Tit. 2. 11 12. and opposed to worldly lusts The grace of God that brings salvation to all men hath appeared teaching us That denying ungodliness and wordly lusts we should live righteously soberly and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the mighty God our Saviour who gave himsef for us to redeem us from all iniquity that he might purifie to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works So 1 Pet. 2. 11 12. it 's opposed to fleshly lusts which being heeded and listened to do hinder the Soul of so living honestly Therefore dearly beloved saith Peter I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts that warre against the Soul having your conversation honest among the Gentiles that in the day of their visitation they may glorifie God Like that Phil. 2. 15 16. Do all things without murmurings and disputings that ye may be blameless harmless the Sons of God in the midst of a crooked generation amongst whom shine ye as lights in the world holding forth the word of life and that both in word and conversation The doing that which is just and equal between man and man and so unto all or that which is so in the sight of men this is certainly here meant by or contained in living honestly as Phil. 2. 16. Rom. 12. 17. 1 Pet. 2. 15. and 3. 16. But this alone is too scant a definition of the living honestly here meant yet all that is signified by it is no more but a walking righteously and doing that which is lawful right but that which is so in the sight of God and according to the teachings of that grace of God that brings salvation to all men goes further then that which is so in the sight of men and they are both together in this living honestly as may be seen in one instance 2 Cor. 8. 20 21. That no man might blame them in the abundance administred by them they did provide things honest not onely in the sight of God but also in the sight of men signifying that they did provide things honest or walk honestly in the sight of God in administring abundantly of whatever God had given them for the good

tribulation Joh. 16. 33. either by bodily persecution they that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall fall by the sword by flame by captivity spoil the brother delivering up the brother to death c. and so they have suffered already many days as Dan. 11. 33. Mat. 24. 9 10. 2 Tim. 3. 12. or else also and more abundantly in the latter dayes and especially when through Gods stirring up the hearts of the Kings of the Earth to hate the whore and burn her flesh with fire Rev. 17. 16. there shall be some abatement of the other more gross and bodily persecution they shall be holpen with a little help then shall they have great tibulation and vexation to their righteous souls by means of many cleaving to them by flatteries and then also many of them of understanding falling to the pernicious wayes of the spirit of antichrist coming with greater deceiveableness of unrighteousness then ever and this for tryal to the rest by them which kinde of tryal must continue for the making them white till the time of the end Dan. 11. 34 35. at which time of the end Daniel must stand up in his lot chap. 12. 13. mean time and still more abundantly in these latter dayes Many false Prophets shall arise and shall deceive many saying Lo here is Christ and lo there and because iniquity shall abound yea evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived because also under more specious pretences of godliness Therefore the love of many shall wax cold and so cold as there shall be scarcely any faith left in the glorious and high-spirited professors of it to expect and wait for nor any love to or desire of his appearing the second time but every one taking up short in some fancy or shadow instead of the substance Mat. 24. 11 12 13. 2 Tim. 3. 13. Luke 18. 8. with Mat. 24. 23 27. This is not the time for our mighty God and Saviour to come and all his Saints with him and take to him his great Power and Raign on the Earth Zech. 14. 5. Rev. 11. 17. with chap. 5. 9 10. and 20. 6. 1 Thess 4. 14 15 16 17. But when this world shall be at an end then will he send his Angels men as men are too weak and insufficient for such a work to gather out of his Kingdom all things that offend and them that do iniquity Then shall the Righteous shine as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father Mat. 13. 24 30 36 43. In the mean time it 's his counsel to all the Servants Let them both grow together as aforesaid All then that the most Christian Rulers or Magistrates are capabable of doing in this matter for the Servants of God the chil-of the Kingdom in this World and more is not required of them is to afford such liberty protection in that liberty that believers may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty under them which yet will be so as the beloved among the daughters many of which are as lions set on fire of hell their teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue a sharpe sword Psal 57. 4. As the Lilly among Thornes that will be shooting and scratching at them privily when they cannot more openly as Psal 11. 2. and 64. 2 5. and so under ignominy and reproach as Gods hidden ones and suffering tribulations still The Magistrates themselves if they will live godly in Christ Jesus must as Christians come under the same reproach and cross of Christ they cannot free themselves nor others of it neither is it a good Spirit that leads to desire freedom from it here where Christ suffered it they cannot bring forth the Righteousness of his people that have waited for him as the light and their judgement as the Noon-day they if they will demean themselves as Christians with the rest of their brethren must rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him for the accomplishing that when all evil doers shall be cut off so as they shall not be Then the meek shall inherit the Earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace Psal 37. 5 6 11 c. The perfect and full accomplishment of those Prophecies Psal 101. 5 8. will be found in and by the true David the Son of David the Lord Christ when he shall receive the Congregation and of him it 's spoken as Psal 75. 2 3 10. and 2. Whoso privily slandereth his Neighbour he will cut off yea him that hath a high look and proud heart he will not suffer It 's the Lord onely that searcheth the heart and trieth the reines yea he will early destroy all the wicked of the Land that he may cut off all wicked doers from the City of the Lord pluck up all the Tares and every thing that offends out of his Kingdom all the hornes of the wicked he will cut off and break them as a Potters vessel that can never gather together or be made whole again Then shall the World be established and setled in a standing posture that it shall never be changed moved or altered nor the Government given to another people for he shall judge the people righteously Psal 96. 10. But it is the World to come of which we speak which is fully to be in subjection unto and under the Government of Jesus Christ till then there will be nothing but mutations compare Psal 102. 25 26 28. and Heb. 1. 10 11. with Heb. 2. 5 6 8. In the mean time as no man is found capable of or worthy to do such things so neither is it required of them and the aspiring at high things or things beyond their sphere will prove very dangerous and destructive to them Davids example and instruction Psal 131. is good for them to observe It were well if they would observe Gods counsel in doing those things they might do and which he requireth of them which according to the instructions of the Gospel fore considered appears in this matter to be this That Christian Magistrates or Rulers of the people afford liberty and protection as aforesaid unto all that do profess or pretend to desire to worship acknowledge serve God in Christ according to his Word or Scriptures I say to defend and protect them in their worship and service if under such pretence and seeming or outward profession they do not grossly blespheme Him his Son his Word and Name as therein plainly declared so as they therein relinquish and cast off the outward acknowledgement of Him and his Name as Levit. 24. 11 16. Deut. 17. 1 6. or if under such pretences or otherwise they do not bend themselves to do any thing wittingly tending to the damage injury or harm of others in body estate or name in vilifying or reproaching their persons or being otherwise injurious to them in such things as Levit. 24. 18 23. and Deut. 19. 11 14 16 21. Those things fall