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A27527	Mysteries discovered, or, A mercuriall picture pointing out the way from Babylon to the holy city for the good of all such as during that night of generall errour and apostasie, 2 Thes. 2.3. Revel. 3.10 have been so long misted with Romes hobgoblin / by me Paul Best ...	Best, Paul, 1590?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing B2053; ESTC R9886	9,747	20

MYSTERIES DISCOVERED OR A Mercuriall Picture pointing out the way from BABYLON to the holy City for the good of all such as during that night of generall Errour and Apostasie 2 Thes. 2. 3. Revel. 3. 10. have been so long misled with Romes hobgoblins Byme PAUL BEST Prisoner in the Gatehouse Westminster Printed in the Yeer 1647. MYSTERIES DISCOVERED CHAP. 1. BEing so extreamly necessitated after so manifold a manner as first for the discharge of my conscience to God and man that woe is mee if like a fearfull or idle servant I should bury that simple talent Secondly for the vindication of my reputation if I should sitdowne in silence I might seeme to be an accessory to the false accusation of those that blast we with the most odious infamy of blaphemy to deny the heavenly Trinity and Jesus Christ to be our blessed Saviour and the truth of the sacred Canonicall Scriptures Lastly by my long and excessive indurance being that I cannot procure by the best friends I have or of those that are appointed by the Parliament a Petition to be presented to the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament to omit that I cannot receive that small Annuity due into me out of Yorkshire besides the false reports of injurious and ignorant persons that I am not onely a most debosh'd and desperate but a distracted and mad man which I hope will be a sufficient plea to indifferent judges for the publishing of my bonds And I appeale to my Countrey and all good Christians whether or no by so long imprisonment without any allowance or having a determinate hearing notwithstanding above 100 Petitions printed and written to the House in generall and the most eminent and concerning members I be not debarred of Christian but of the liberty of a Subject contrary to Law Ordinance of Parliament equity and humanity So that without a speedy remedy of such common continuate and unheard of cruelties our ensuing end is like to be worse then that which we suffered in our late Civill Wars For it is not the continuance of our mock-fasts that will excuse so long as our oppression continueth Isa. 58. 5 6. c. yea of such as conclude their Fasts like that of January 28th 1645 at Westminster with a consultation how to murther an innocent and that after a most cruell more then Heathenish manner without any legall hearing much lesse laudable proceeding being not allowed of the Divines once to oppose or yet to give an advised Answer by writing Lord lay not this to their charge being but an intent through ignorance which by Gods providence and the more gracious of the Parlament was prevented For my discovery of two grand mysteries viz. that anomious or lawlesse mystery 2 Thess. 2. from the third to the thirteenth Verse As also Revel. 17. 1 5. and its opposite Revel. 10. 7. the mystery of God to wit the Father and Creatour 14. 17. For the better cleering of which misty mysteries Imagine some great King like some of the old Persians that would seldome or never be seen of the people should send his sonne and heire fully acquainted with his will and pleasure as his vicegerent plenipotentiary and prolocutor whether the sonne being equivalent to use that terme in way of reference John 14. 9. as 13. 20. 1 Thess. 2. 13. be in himself coequall to the King for that as John 5. 23. is an Adverbe of like quality and not equality this we know that God the Father is that invisible and indivisible King 1 Tim. 1. 17. 6. 15 16. John 1. 18. 5. 37. 1 John 4. 12. and that the inauguration or anointing of our blessed Saviour was his baptisme Matth. 3. 17. 4. 17. Acts 1. 22. 10 37. which is therefore termed the beginning viz. of his Gospel Iohn 1. 1. 1 Iohn 1. 1. and that new creation 2 Cor. 5. 17. so that Christ is to us both God and his Word as Moses was to Aaron and Aaron to him Exod. 4. 16. not that a word is Christ or Christ life everlasting but in a figurative sence after a Scripture manner and meaning according to the character of that beloved Apostle as Erasmus observeth in his argument to his Epistles and Hierome in his Preface to his Gospel sheweth that this Apostle had a speciall intent to confute Corinthus and the Ebionites that affirmed Christ to be but an ordinary man the sonne of Joseph c. this Apostle being the best Commentator of his own meaning how Christ is said to be that visible God as Isa. 40. 7. the word Iohn 3. 34. yea and palpable word 1 Iohn 1. 1. life eternall 5. 20. that Lambe of God Iohn 1. 36. our Passeover 1 Cor. 5. 7. the the rock 10. 4. David our King Ezek. 34. 23. Hosea 3. 5. in them typicall predications and the like John 15. 1. Matth. 17. 12. Is 1. 10. Revel. 11. 8. by a Metaphor or Metonymy as Perkins and Alsted in their Tracts of sacred Tropes where Alsted expounds that 1 Cor. 15. 28. then shall the sonne also himself be subject that is acknowledged to be CHAP. 2. TO come to the Question whether Christ after the doctrine of Athanasius in his Symbole be coequal with the father Wee know what charge the Apostle giveth Gal. 1. 10. against such setters up of new Creeds without warranty contrary to the first and great Commandement set forth by proclamation of the great King expresly testifying not only his unity Deut. 6. 4. Psal. 83. 18. 86. 10. Isa. 37. 16. c. c. c. but also his supremacy and majority Psal. 13. 5 5. Joh. 10. 29. 14. 28. Ephes. 1. 17. 4. 6. Luke 1. 32. John 17. 3. Mark 13. 32. in exclusive and superlative expressions Of which see more Mat 20. 23. 27 46. Iohn 20. 17. Heb. 1. 9. 1 Cor. 15. 28. the son being tenant in Capite to God the Father 1 Cor. 11. 3. both for his words works and honours Iohn 3. 34. 5. 19. 2 Pet. 1. 17. and therefore not coequall for without contradiction the lesse is dignified by the greater Also God and Christ are distinguished Iohn 14. 1. 1 Thess. 3. 11. it being an observation of the learned Erasmus that where God is put absolutely the Father is understood as Iohn 8. 54. To come to the offices of Christ our Mediatour 1 Tim. 2. 5. as a King Acts 17. 31. Matth. 25. 34. as a Priest Heb. 7. 24. of a Prophet Deut 18. 18. according to that most usuall epithite of his sanctification the Son of man denominations being for the most part taken from the more worthy so John 8. 40. Acts 2. 23. 13. 38. Rom. 5. 15. 1 Cor. 15. 21. Col. 1 15. Heb. 2. 16. 4. 15. 2. Esdras 13. 25 32. which were to no purpose if the better part of his person were not man there being but a graduall difference betwixt him and Moses and us Heb. 3. 5 6. 4. 15. Rom. 8. 17. there being not one such word or

any one text tending to that purpose in the whole holy Scriptures but many to the contrary If we have respect to the scope coherence analogy and the originalls in discerning figurative forms and phrases according to the sence and meaning which is the spirit and life of the two Testaments Revel. 11. 11. whereas the letter is but the corpes common as the high-way throughout Christendom Wherefore to speak definitively of the heavenly Trinity I beleeve the Father to be God himself as 1 Thess. 3. 11. expressed by these adjuncts the God of heaven Revel. 11. 13. the living God and Father Joh. 6. 57. 69. and that the Son is our Messiah 4. 26. whom God made Lord and Christ Acts 2. 36. Prince and Saviour 5. 31. And that the holy spirit is the very power of God Luke 1. 35. 24 49. as 1 Cor. 2. 11. or the Father God essentially the Sonne vicentially the holy Spirit potentially or the Father God above all Ephes. 4. 6. the Son of God with us Matth. 1. 23. the holy Spirit God within us 1 Cor. 2. 16. but for the Son to be coequall to the Father or the holy Spirit a distinct coequall person I cannot finde and I beleeve that these three are one or agree and conspire in the substance of the same truth to salvation See 1 Cor. 13. 13. 1 John 5. 8. of two Trinities without coequalls or yet persons * And that of three coequall persons to be but the Chappell of Rome for the Church of Christ and that which keepeth the rest of the World in the Popes pownd forth of his fold both the Jews that beleeve the Old Testament the Turk and the Great Mogoll c. according to the dictate of common intelligence not corrupt in this kind by a contrary habit who cannot be brought to believe in a Trinity implying Polytheosie or Apotheosie i. e. many gods or a man-god So that the denying of a second Deity or Godhead is not destructive of faith but onely removes it from false foundation to a true that is God the Father by Christ Jesus 2 Cor. 5. 19. 1 Pet. 5. 10. for that John 5. 18. was a misprision of the Jews proceeding from their ignorance as may appeare 10. 34 35 36 37. by our Saviour his own Comment CHAP. 3. TO answer objections of Scriptures wrested by that third semipagan Century and a prepossessed posterity as in Gen. 1. 26. Let us make man which in the next verse also 5. 1 2. six severall times and Matth. 19. 4. Mark 10. 6. is expounded in the singular number like that Gen. 11. 7 8. which were a contradiction not an exposition and that Elohim bara the Gods made in the first Verse a solecisme and not an Hebraisme being a figurative consultation with his wisdom or communication with the holy Angels by way of approbation as 1 Kings 22. 19. Iob 1. 6. or enallage of the plurall number for the singular for the more honour * as Iob 18. 2. Dan. 2. 36. Iohn 3. 11. as Kings write in the style of Majesty after the manner of the holy tongue see Gen. 24. 9. of Abraham his Masters Iosh. 24. 19. hee is holy Gods Is 19. 4. 54. 5. c but to infer three coequal persons from thence the person of Christ according to the flesh nor then existing is altogether inconsequent of the like sort seems that to be Eccles. 12. 1. if parents be not implyed For them high and glorious Epithites Isa. 9. 6. of a man-child that was to be born it is granted they are very great and excellent yet well beseeming our blessed Saviour the founder and governour of his Church of whose wonderfull birth and works wee have sufficient testimonies being of his Fathers most intimate Counsell a mighty God not almighty God above all appellative gods 1 Cor. 8. 5. Revel. 1. 5. the everlasting Father or of the Age to come as Ierome eyther by way of Regeneration and that by an excellency or equivalency as Iohn 14. 9. of whose government although there were a beginning Heb. 10. 6. yet shall there be no enduring the term militant or of mortality 1 Cor. 15. 26. So that it is not a small thing for Christ to be so dignified by the Father unlesse hee be deified and equallized with the Father see Gen. 41. 43. Exod. 34. 14. 1 Sam. 18. 23. Ester 6. 9. as Is 49. 6. That Jer. 23. 6. is but an argument from the name for some relation to God as Gen. 22. 14. Exod. 17. 15. Judg 6. 24. 2 Sam. 6. 2. as it may appeare 1 Cor. 1. 30. 2 Cor. 5. 21. unlesse wee would make Iehovahim gods in the plurall which were dissonant to that incommunicable name That Zach. 13. 7. speaketh of a sociall and not a coequall party as Iudg. 18. 20. Acts 15. 28. God and Christ concurring as sociall causes to wit primary efficient and principall instrument in the businesse of salvation Iohn 6. 44. 14 6. 1 Iohn 1. 3 6. CHAP. 4. THat John 2. 29. is an Enallage of the active for the passive and is spoken declaratively as 20. 23. Levit. 13. and 14. c. of the Priest clensing the Leper like that Gen. 41. 13. by the divine power wherewith God endowed him John 5. 2 9 there being so many testimonies to that purpose Acts 2. 24. 13. 31. Rom. 4. 24. 1 Cor. 15. 19. 2 Cor. 4. 14. Gal. 1. 1. Ephes. 1. 20. Col. 2. 12. 1 Thess. 1. 1. with Heb. 13 10. c. That Acts 20. 28 in some Translations is with that peculiar bloud and not Gods own bloud which is absurd That Rom. 9. and 5th is spoken of Christ as he was an Israelite by kinde with the like clause to that Rom. 1. 25. 2 Cor. 11. 31. That Philip 2. 6. should be tooke not upon him the equality of a God Lord or Master as Posselius and Pusor shew the Apostle exhorting them by the example of Christ who being in a twofold form as John 13. 13. Gal. 4. 1. took upon him the form of a servant wherefore God hath highly exalted him as Verse 9th so that John 20. 28. is as much as Lord and Master like Elohim and Adonim for the truth of Christs resurrection was that which Thomas doubted and not his Deity That John 8. 58. of Christ his being before Abraham is to be understood in place and dignity as Verse 53. and not time as appeareth by circumstance 57 like that 1. 15 30. of the Baptist That 1 John 5. 7 8. be the same in effect like that Mar. 10. 8. one by conspiration or conjugation not individuation as 1 Cor. 6. 17. John 17. 21. Acts 4. 32. Heb. 2. 11. Jer. 32. 39. otherways we should confound the Trinity by such an Unity That John 17. 5. is a Scripture Prolepsis in regard of divine anticipation as may be gathered from that 13. 31 33. Luke 24. 26. according to Revel. 13. 8. so Jer. 1. 5. in regard of