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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92190	Jacobs ladder, or The protectorship of Sion, laid on the shoulders of the Almighty; in a description of the sufficiency of providence, suitable in these times of tentation. With Jacobs wrestling. / By Francis Raworth of Shoreditch.	Raworth, Francis, d. 1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing R373; Thomason E1507_2; ESTC R209489	136,597	367

a Dwarf standing on the shoulders of a tall man sees further than the tall man on whose shoulders he stands So I am perswaded in some things that the men of knowledge in this age will be but children in understanding in the next Jer. 31.34 They shall not teach one another saying know the Lord. Then farewell preaching No the Saints shall need to be built up but they shall not so much need to be taught the Principles of Religion saying Exprimere non valet experimento opus est Cathedram in coelo habet qui corda docet Know the Lord What is God the new nature shall teach them that which is not the impression of Man but of God They shall say Our Father and I Beleeve by roat It is observable that under the Law the Girdle was about the Loyns Ezek 23.15 But in Gospel times it is about the Paps Rev. 1. ●3 to signifie how knowledge shall rise h gher in the last ages of the world than in former ages Young men shall see visions and old men shall dream dreams The old world did but dream the knowledge of the Jews is more dark but in Gospel-daies there shall be Visions a clearer knowledge and Revelation of the mind of God Antichrist hath brought a cloud into the Temple and the Gospel Sun-shine must expel it Providence is picking quarrels with the painted windows of Antichrist and the Lord will set up clear glass windows that shall not keep out the light Not that we are to expect new Truths but new Vnderstandings not the printing of a new Gospel ☜ or making any more additions but new eye-sight and the downfal of old error How is it possible that amongst us any should plead for Revelations when we have the revealed Word Revelations were more suitable to the days of the Law we have a compleat copy of the Lords mind for the Government of his Church in the Word but it is as with man the older he grows the more inclinable he is to dreams Mundus senescens patitur phantasiam the old world begins to doat and we are ready to neglect our watch in this dreaming age Second Prospect from this Ladder we may foresee the encrease of holiness Now many can profess and be drunk profess and swear and lie now men are more careful for new Lights than new Lives new Notions Gnostici simal Borboritae than new Motions of the Spirit Care more to have a Library of Divinity in their brains than a Catechism of Divinity in their hearts Have the light of the Sun for Knowledge whereas they have not the heat of a candle for Holiness like the Toad that has a precious pearl in the Head but poyson in the Bowels or like the Lapwing that hath a Coronet on her head but always feeds on dunghils But there is a time a coming when men shall more visibly honor God All the pots in the Lords house shall be holy and holiness shall be wrote on the bels of the horses Zech. ult Counterfeit holiness vanisheth the more real holiness appears At Rome there was a Pantheon or Temple for all gods but the Heathen would not suffer Jehovah to be worshipped there for he is a jealous God and if he had been honored then down with Mars and Jupiter The Kingdom of Christ shall prosper I wish none have Kingly thoughts of that Kingdom the Kingdom of Christ and holiness and humility and Mortification It is not the throwing down of prophane Ministers and oppressing Magistrates onely will be this Kingdom for they may be thrown down and yet Christ never be set up the new Creature Self-denial will after all this be necessary for otherwise we should have rather Plato's Common-wealth or Tully's Offices than Christs Kingdom Moral Prophaneness indeed lays the Gospel on the dunghill but Moral Holiness simply will never set Christ in his Throne There shall be an high-way and it shall be called the way of holiness and no unclean thing shall pass therein Isa 53. If any demand how this can be I answer no disease is incurable to an omnipotent Physician Third Prospect from this Ladder we may see Hypocrisie defeated and many Apostates recovered Now many desire rather to appear than to be holy they account the form necessary but the power of Religion burthensom Now many like Rowers in a Boat look one way and row another Now many have no greater ends by Religion than in the end to be great in Religion But Providence is a pulling off the vizard and making the hearts of men to appear in their faces Many shal not only not dance in a net unseen of heaven but not in a net unseen of men Their folly shall be made known to all men God will light up candles in Jerusalem and enkindle a fire in Sion and Hypocrisie shall not indure either the light or heat and God will also make professors like Moses Act. 7.22 Not onely mighty in words Crassiani non Christiani that are no bodies in deeds but also mighty in word and in deeds like Aarons rod not onely to bring forth blossoms of profession but Almonds fruits of holiness Like the High Priest not onely to have Bels but Pomegranates not onely to bear away the bell for knowledge but to give a sweet scent of the Spirit in their conversations Many poor sinners of late have left their Fathers house and because of their guilty consciences would for the present if they could run out of their Fathers eye as well as his house and who shall return the Prodigal to his Father Hagar to her Mistris Jonah to his God again how do many Professors fly like spiritual malefactors from one form to another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and disguize themselves with Opinions and all to avoid the Hue and Cry of Conscience that God is raising and if it were possible to tear the Records of the Gospel in peeces and burn down the Tribunal Bar they have run into such arrearages in sin Now who shall set up the broken Professor or awaken the sleepy Virgin Though Might and Power cannot do it yet an Almighty Power can do it Zech. 4.6 The remnant of Jacob shall be as a dew from the Lord as the showres on the grass that wait not for the Sons of men Mic. 5.7 It is true says God Gardeners dig and delve and water their ground and so have herbs but I le turn the Wilderness into a Pool I le work without work-men sinners shall not be watered by man but by God with the dew of Heaven When the day dawns the dew fals thick on the ground and till the Lords powre dawn all the world cannot make dew nor thaw the hearts of men Fourth Prospect from this Ladder hence we may see the reconciliation of Divisions Now Ephraim is against Manasseh and Manasseh against Ephraim and both against Judah now divisions are not onely between Wolves and Wolves but between sheep and