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A85461	Saltmarsh returned from the dead, in Amico Philalethe. Or, The resurrection of James the apostle, out of the grave of carnall glosses, for the correction of the universall apostacy, which cruelly buryed him who yet liveth. Appearing in the comely ornaments of his fifth chapter, in an exercise, June 4. 1654. Having laid by his grave clothes, in a despised village remote from England, but wishing well, and heartily desiring the true prosperity thereof.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1307; Thomason E836_1; ESTC R207426	178,733	220

another is the wisdome of man that perisheth and comes to nought and not the wisdome of God which abides the same for ever and is that light which guides unto the Elders who are the onely governours and rulers of this universall Church called into communion and fellowship with this sick party and they are the first borne of every tribe having upon them the office of King Preist and Prophet in every family and inferiour to that dignity doth not this sicknesse call for any to come to visite it knowing all others to be Physitians of no value for this kinde of sicknesse summons none but the first borne of God into communion and fellowship with it that call which Cornelius gave to Peter that Elder of the Church was like unto this that when he spake of that unction of Christ the spirit of God descended upon those that heard it insomuch that Peter challengeth all men whether they can forbid water that those should not be baptized who had received the holy spirit as well as themselves as if he should say can any deny the signe of unity between Jew and Gentile which is communion and fellowship seeing they have the ground and substance thereof namely are partakers of the spirit of God that holy anoynting which is the truth and substance of all community whether we be present or absent in body we are one in that spirit of the Lord. The word of Prophesie therfore which is ever accompanied with prayer as in Cornelius or that word of true interpretation of the word of God knows how to give summons unto and call in the life and spirit of kingdome and Preisthood into fellowship with it selfe which is that healthfull spirit or unction that is by Jesus Christ Add further this sicknesse is the very foot of the throne upon which that great Elder even the ancient of dayes sits for when Daniel beholds through this spirit of interpretation he sees thrones set up or as the word will bear thrones cast down at you may see how the translators give it in both phrases signifying thereby that the power and glory of the world is cast down wheresoever this great Eldership is set up which is of no lesse antiquity then is the eternall that gives Judgement into the hands of the Saints of the most high and possesseth them with the kingdome for none but the eternall can give an eternall inheritance and he gives it not but as he sits on this throne namely the glory of man cast down and the gravity of this ancient of days set up whose garments are white as snow and the haire of his head like pure wooll and such is the royalty and authority of the Eldership here intended who are not brought in by any other call but by the Prophesie or interpretation of the minde of God therefore it is that the vision speaks so punctually and particularly where and with whom Peter is to be found Note here that even as the life of the flesh through the crucification of the spirit admits none into unity nor invests any into its proper condition but onely such as are of its own kinde so the life of the spirit which is in Christ Jesus through the crucification of the flesh admits none into fellowship nor invests any into its proper state and condition but its owne kinde For what is born of the flesh is flesh and what is born of the spirit is spirit and therefore none but the first-born of God are of this Eldership or callers of them into the exercise of their proper virtue and authority even as it was with the Apostles when they pronounce peace if the son of peace be not there their peace returns upon themselves and their abode is not in that house of family 3. By these Elders then in the third place we see what we are to understand by the Church they are of that is that unity and fellowship which the selected and chosen people of God are of and have in that fellowship and faith of Jesus Christ as they are considered not in one age much lesse in one Parish or company of people gathered together but as they are universally considered in all ages and times of the world For such as is the extent of the spirit by which every Saint lives and of those offices of Christ by vertue whereof the exercise of such extent is the true Church ever to be held and taken otherwise the Church is carnallized and cast into the mould of the letter that kills and not into the mould of the spirit that gives life So that to thrust up Christ as into a corner as in one age of the world or to monopolize him amongst a handfull of people is all one as to put him in the grave though with Nicodemus a Ruler among the Jews and that rich man Joseph of Arimethea both night Disciples for fear of the Jews they may seem to differ from Herod in that they perfume the dead body and wrap it in clean linnen being affected therewith but it is but according to the custome of the Jewish Sinagogue for they put it in the grave and roll a great stone thereupon as men without hope or desire of the resurrection having that common spirit that now lives in the world to beg leave of the Pilates and great men thereof before they dare adventure to trim up the dead body of Jesus and fit it for the Sepulchre But this universall Church of which these Elders are is called by the Apostle mount Zion the City of the living God the new Jerusalem the generall assembly and Church of the first-born which are enrolled in heaven And such as constitute and set up a Church not of this nature and comprehension they build it up upon mount Sinai under the terrors of the law and sprinckle the instruments and officers there of as with the blood of Abel speaking from the ground or earthly heart of Cain and not on mount Zion in that blood of sprinkling which speaks better things in that peaceable agreement and reconcilement of God and man in Jesus Christ Note here that where two or three are gathered together in any part of the world or at any time we deny it not to be the true Church of Christ but what is it which gives it its capacity to be that Church of Christ is it not he who is in the midst or in the heart of them as the word is who is no lesse then that everlasting father or that ancient of dayes what bounds then can be set unto it lesse then that which gives it its capacity to be such a thing who extends himselfe to the whole family of heaven for unto him all faces looke and every knee bowes and if once it be so in our selves we see it in the whole family and flock of God in all the elect So that the true sum volume of all their doctrine and prayers is of no lesse extent then the

well as that of the Sonne of God who is the Lord our righteousnesse the very kingdome it selfe and the inlet thereinto also Yea there is a faith of Devils as well as the faith of the Sonne of God as the Apostle declares Thou beleives there is one God thou dost well the Devil also beleives and trembles The phrase of Scripture therefore without the scope and intent thereof is the common deceipt of all the world where the Scriptures are read and the rest have the substance thereof written in their hearts So that no humane learning which is but the Dilucidation or Lucifer of those principles can possibly give light to lead to the true knowledge of the Scriptures The mis-apprehending of this point running away with the phrase as men by their Concordance heap up phrases of Scripture to confirm their doctrine whereas every one is of severall interpretation never minding the intent but onely the sound of words is the very cause of all the principalities powers the rulers of the darknesse of this world and spirituall wickednesse or wicked spirits as the word is in high places which are so elevated consecrated and judged of such necessity in the world for from hence ariseth the unction of the King as being set in that office and roome of that King of Salem Prince of peace and from this is the Bishop consecrated and installed as bearing the office and place of that great Bishop and feeder of our soules and out of this mistake ariseth all those offices and officers respectively standing in relation to the one and to the other whereby the pure word of eternity comes to be prostrated and adulterated by bringing it into copulation with vanishing things which perish in the use Submitting it unto the glory of the creature and not the creature to the glory of him who is God blessed for ever Amen Note here that the laws and orders of men in the world standing upon the letter of the Scripture in sound of word and not in the sence in the history which alters in form and not in the mystery that abides for ever hence it is that they are built upon the sands as Christ reports And when any people comes to see into the defects of the foundation which another people stand upon they encourage themselves to pull down the building of another to make their own more firme so that which the world takes to be the strength and safety of it selfe comes in few years to be the depopulating and ruine thereof For it is as possible to give as good ground and argument for one way and order set up upon the sayd principles as for another as for water in baptisme and men of ripe years as wine in the supper and infants counted the seed of the Church debarred and for the cutting off the fore-skin of the flesh as wel as either of them both and upon this ground comes in that continued work and great imployment of reformation in the world and shall never be accomplished by the change of titles of officers and formes of institutions so long as they are placed upon the same foundation namely the bare letter of the Scripture but the best perfection it will be brought unto is to persecute Joseph for interpretting the dream In this point of the letter or phrase of the Scripture and the true intent and scope thereof consists that threefold temptation brought in by Satan against Christ and Christ his effectuall answer thereunto in the one stands the subtilty of the Devill and in the other the wisdome and minde of the Son of God 2. And hence he brings in the direction leading us to the Prophets as to a pattern how to come to the true knowledge of the minde of God that is to the true interpreters of the Scriptures for the Hebrew word Nabi and the Greek Prophetes signifies speaking interpretting and uttering words and Oracles that come immediately from God So that we have no true example copy extract draught or pattern of the law of God the order and composure of the kingdome of God but by having recourse to the true interpretation of the word of God And there is no true Prophesie of any private interpretation but holy men of God speak as they are moved by the spirit of God that is there is no true interpretation given of any part of the word of God when it is bounded to any particular time or age or confined to any particular time or age or confined to one particular person alone but as the spirit of God remains the same in its motion so doth the word of God in its expression and creating virtue accompanying the same in Christ and it is a thing too sublime to be congealed into inke too secret and hidden to be printed upon paper too precious to be piled up in Libraries and of too prince-like a spirit to enter into contract with or be subservant unto any school of humane learning For it is the spirit of the Sonne onely that knows the minde of the father and it is he and not another that must reveale it unto us So that if ever we receive that fiery law of the spirit we must ascend into the mount of God namely into the height of the condition of him who sits at the right hand of God being that whereby he manifests his wisdome and skill power and glory even as a man manifests his art and skill by his right hand which no art power nor policy of man can ever reach or attaine unto This pattern is set before us in the Prophets onely or in that one great Prophet in the interpretation and unfolding of the word of God or in the translation of the originall language that is in declaring how the things of God are transformed through the carnall conceptions of men into the principles and rudiments of the creature and so is in them become a profane Grecian which makes the Son of God so complaine that his vissage is marred more then any man and his forme more then the sons of men And this is a language will speak in Cain and all his posterity when inke and paper shall vanish as smoke There is also a skil to translate the spirit of man into the principles and excellencies of the Sonne of God as being thereby become that holy Hebrew of Heber yea the seed of Abraham and Sonne of God to speak according to that voyce of the blood of sprinkling which hath in it power to passe over the destroying Angell for ever if these were as truly translated or interpretted in the world as the letters and sillables of the Bible are into our native tongue wee should see more eminent and excellent Schollars appeare then now we do 1. And here the Prophets are described to be such as speak in the name of the Lord that is in the power and authority of the Sonne of God for to speak in the name of God is to speak in

the authority and power of God which comprehends not onely speech but action also that is those signes and wonders and mighty works which accompany the preaching of the Gospel in the confirmation of it testifying the presence of God accompanying the word making it good by act and deed according to the expressions thereof For the word of God is never truly uttered without the appearance of a signe and wonder and a great work no lesse then such as holds proportion with God for the confirmation of the same Now we know a wonder is a monster in nature such as no nature in its proper instinct brings forth it goes beyond the bounds abilities and precincts of any naturall confines whatsoever and without such works signes or wonders the Gospel is never truly preached for if it should Christs promise would faile but heaven and earth shall faile before that one jot or tittle of the word of God come to corruption So that there is no speech or doctrine of the Gospel but in its expression it frames constitutes and brings forth a work of such nature as no simple nature whatsoever can bring forth therefore a wonder and a signe to be admired yea truly miraculous for no nature can reach thereunto in the utmost extent thereof For as it is true that there is no operation of the spirit of God in the way of Christ but it is above and goes beyond the nature of the creature having the power and glory of the Creator in it nor is it attainable by any or by all creatures So it is true also that there is not any work or operation of the Gospel which the divine nature simply and abstractively considered can be sayd to be in any capacity or possibility to attaine thereunto but the possibility of God to do all things stands in his making himself to be such a one otherwise it is unattaniable in the nature divine simply and singly considered because there is no work of the Gospel without man considered in it no more then there is a Christ without mans nature who is the subject matter of the Gospel And as Christ is not without mans nature no more is any work of the Gospel for as the divine nature cannot of it selfe simply and solely considered dye nor ascend neither descend being incomprehensible No more can the humane nature considered simply in it selfe have in it eternal life comprehend all things or be omnipotent but in that unity of the Gospel the Sonne of God they are all brought to passe and all in act and being in that one Christ nothing in him therefore whatsoever but being set forth and brought to light there appear a wonder a miracle is wrought a signe set up for the confirmation of the Gospel such as no nature simply considered can attaine unto or bring forth so that if the true word of the Prophet or of interpretation be spoken this true and miraculous work must enevitably appear transcending all nature in the utmost capacity thereof And therefore that saying holds firme that we have a Meditor made higher then the heavens a work and wonder above all nature simply and solely considered and therefore Christ is that new creature yea the beginning or head of the creation of God for God is one in the work not onely in making but as one made in Christ And thus the Prophets are invested with power and authority to speak in the name of the Lord not onely in word but in work also a signe and wonder accompanying the word at all times which makes them most noble and God-like to the cutting off of the spirit of Princes becoming terrible to the Kings of the earth 2. Whence he brings in the second description of a true Prophet as the means whereby this power and authority is attained and that is through suffering affliction and long patience By suffering affliction in this place we are to understand a being cut off from being supported by any earthly power carnall policy or any temporall glory whatsoever with respect to friends or alies or any earthly relations which fade and vanish away which human spirits seek unto and rely upon for the promoting of themselves For onely in the losse and laying aside all these things a true Prophet comes to be invested into the power wisdome and excellency of the Son of God in whom is found all friendship all offices and all relations whatsoever not onely compleated but also eternized to abide for ever in whose power and authority by this means they go forth By this means it was that Moses became so great a deliverer for he refusing to be called the Son of Pharaohs daughter choosing rather to suffer adversity with the people of God in the losse of all such kinde of glory as Pharaohs Court afforded became an effectuall instrument to manifest that power and glory throughout all the land of Aegypt in the deliverance of Gods chosen and overthrow of his enemies Again take Eliah for an instance in this point comprehending all the Prophets as he did in his appearance with Christ in the transfiguration and you shall finde him complaining that he is left alone as cut off from all relations from carnall apostatized Israel and his life sought after to be taken away also by the policy and power of the whole kingdome of Israel under the Government of that wicked Ahab For a true Prophet is to endure hardnesse as a good souldier of Jesus Christ and no man that warreth intangleth himselfe with the affaires of this life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a souldier For no superiority dignity or advance no place of office or atendance no conjunction or relation of this life but must suffer wrack and ruine in the true prosecution of the authority and spirit of a Prophet otherwise the name of God is not called upon as Christ witnesseth saying For whosoever of you he be that forsakes not all that he hath he cannot be my Disciple The bond of family with respect to wife and children must give way to this the bond of trade and imployment must give way to this the bond of office and place to uphold this tottering temporary order amongst men must give way to this the bond and tye to particular congregations of tittuler Pastor Teacher or in any other way hireling ministry which are much alike to family cares relations and employments to maintain a temporary credit and lively-hood in this life the power and spirit of Eliah breaks them to peeces if the spirit of God breath it snaps them all like Sampsons bands which were but as flax when it smels the fire though the world in the losse of the lock by its Dla's who hath bewitched them to stand ingaged unto it contrary to the expresse word of Christ which sayth If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his own life