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A45520	What is truth. Or, the patern in the mount Wherein many places of scripture are (in pursuit of truth, and the churches peace) explained. Therein, most false opinions and heresies (both modern and ancient) are clearly detected and refelled. By Tho. Harby.; What is truth.	Harby, Thomas.	1671 (1671)	Wing H686; ESTC R216529	205,140	354

barren than any part of it for in seven years when the River did not overflow it brought forth nothing But it was a place miraculously prepared of God by a more general Providence through the River's yearly overflowing it And it was more remarkably prepared by a special Providence of God in sending Joseph thither to foresee and prevent the miserable calamities of its seven years native barrenness Spiritual Egypt the subject of the secular and Spiritual-Apostacy was the place prepared of God to preserve the Gospel-Church for 1260 years in the Antitype-Wilderness Rev. 12.6 14. Ch. 11.8 And therefore Thirdly Literal and Spiritual Egypt were the Theaters or proper places of the Type and Antitype-Apostasies And Fourthly We shall shew what the grand Apostacy is and first In a Figure The Patriarks sold their brother into Egypt and God sold them into the same place They fell away from faith and love From faith to their own Father from love to him and their own brother from care of both And the Apostacy of the Gospel-Church is exactly the same She and her Members fell in a very great measure from faith and obedience from faith to men from love to their brethren and thereby from obedience to God The fruits of Egypt in the famine were ill-favoured and withered fruits Such are the fruits of Saints and Professors in the Spiritual Wilderness their good works are Dwarf-manners half-performances They sell their brethren for lucre without shewing mercy or doing right They err in their hearts and are ignorant of the wayes of God They mind not or very little what they are The grand Apostacy is two-fold The first And The second Such was it in the Types thereof Type Egypt's Apostacy was two-fold She at first savoured Israel was a nursing Mother to the Profuga -Church but fell away to afflict and persecute that people That was her first Apostacy But Secondly She oft repented as Hypocrites do to no purpose and then pursud Israel into the Red Sea to slay them all by a total excision and they all that pursu'd them perished themselves in that Sea This was Egypts second and last Apostacy Secondly The Old World revolted from its Primitive Integrity Therefore God appointed Noah a Preacher of Righteousness a Figure of the Witnesses Prophesying in Sackcloth to forewarn the World for 120 years That might be the principal time of its first Type-Apostasie But all that time spent they repented not and the fear of God was reduc'd to some few in a single family That diminution of the fear of God and increase of impenitence after so long admonition was a second Apostacy Then the floud came as an universal Sea and destroyed the World Thirdly Baals Prophets and Consederate Israel fell away to worship Baal for 1260 dayes That was the chief time of their first Apostacy But after that Satan became a lying Spirit in the mouthes of all the surviving Prophets That was their second Apostacy Then the total excision of all those Prophets soon after followed Thirdly Judas a man of half-performances and a Figure of the Apostasie of Antichrist is expresly called The son of perdition John 17.12 And the Antichrist I say not sensual but Secular and Spiritual is called also The Son of perdition 2 Thes 2.3 That Type-son of perdition Judas apostatized twice and first he was or seemed to be a chosen Vessel Christ chose him to be a Disciple Luke 6.13 But he fell away to be a Thief and a Hypocrite and so continued for about 1260 days Daniels half week of years Dan. 9.27 and was all that time undiscovered or not known to the Apostles to be an Hypocrite That time was the duration of his first Apostacy But then Secondly Satan entered into Judas That was his second Apostasie He then immediately betrayed his Master and hasted to hang himself This second Apostasie was a falling away Non à bono ad malum sed à malo ad pessimum not from seeming good to real evil so he had faln before for 1260 days but from real evil to most desperate wickedness from seeming fidelity to real perfidy So his Antitype the son of perdition was to Apostatize twice His first revolt was from Primitive Faith and Love That desertion was to continue entire 1260 years His second Apostasie is or shall be a falling away à malo in deterrimum from evil to all excessive wickedness perfidy and iniquity which the Apostle thus predicted This know that in the last days perilous times shall come for men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers without natural affection false accusers traytors c. This is Apostasia novissima pessima the last and worst Apostasie Therefore it is that we find such a prodigious and suddain mutation of mens manners They had sometimes yea lately some mansuetude some love some seeming good Now nothing but deceit They incline their ears to lyars and Hypocrites hearken unto lyes become false accusers and traytors as if Satan with seven Spirits were re-entred into Judas and indeed As Satan entered into Baal's Servants and into Judas also and thereby initiated his and their second and last Apostasie So we find it expresly said That Spirits of Devils shall seduce the Antitype-Apostasie and after 1260 years the time of its first revolt actuate the impenitent part of that Apostate body as the Devil did the Swine of Gadara into the Sea of perdition Revel 11.13 18. Ch. 16.19 That time is or shall be Perditissimorum morum tempus pessimum the most depraved time of sinister prevarication wherein men and manners are most degenerate from being or doing good Their half performances are broken into fractions and yet they retain a Form c. Religion is made almost universally a Cloak for Ignorance and Iniquity The first Apostasie of Antichrist was like green Tares that incumber growing Corn The second Apostacy is compared to a ripe Harvest wherein the evil fruits of the Mystery of Iniquity are fully ripe Rev. 14.15 18. We return The place prepared in the Antitype Wilderness is vas continens the proper Subject and Theater of the grand Apostasie and of the Plagues that attend it But Spiritual Sion shall be the Theatre or derivative foundation of the Churches reversion and repentance the receptacle of all the Mercies of the Promises of God and the Fountain of those healing Waters of Life to all Nations Ezek. 47. to the 13th Rev. 22.2 3. The grand Apostasie is only blindness of mind and barrenness in manners affected and espoused by Men Saints and Professors And this Apostacy with little limitation is almost universal as barrenness in the seven years famine overspread the Land of Egypt and only shrubs and fruitless sands covered the face of the Wilderness But it must be then universal when the smoak of the bottomless-pit darkned the light of the Sun and the light of the Aire Chap. 9.2 Then universal darkness and more near the end of the Churches

were sealed I answer Their Title teacheth us the causes of their being so called They are called The first-fruits it seems because they are to be the first after the grand Apostacy that shall bring forth fruits of more visible and conspicuous Obedience to God and good Works to Men And the 144000 in the 7th Chapter to the 9th vers the Church sealed were for different or contrary causes not called The first-fruits To wit Because they during the time of the grand Apostacy ' did not bring forth fruits of such visible obedience to God nor good works so apparent to Men For such as the Tree is such is the Fruit but that Numerus sigillatus was the sealed Church And such must her fruits be sealed works of necessity For a Book or Letter sealed is scarce at all legible And such is the love and works of that sealed Church There 's little exemplariness in her practice for others to follow Her works so weak are they so over-grown with Weeds of evil Manners are scarce at all manifest But the fruits of these first-fruits cannot but be manifest must of necessity be signally manifest because they shall have the Name of God written in their foreheads And their works wrought in a quadruplex conformity after the Pattern of the good Samaritan their grand Exemplar shall be that Name of God written in their foreheads exemplary and legible to all Ages and Nations I do not absolutely state the Epoche of the sealed Church at the Commencement of the 1000 years about the beginning of the reign of Constantius the first For they are said to come out of great tribulations which is more truly intended of their Conscript Antitype vers 14. Howbeit They did then begin to come out of those tribulations when the first Dragon began to fall Therefore Their Epoche of being sealed might seem to begin then But if they begun to be sealed as 't is likely they might at the beginning of the fall of the first Dragon Then they were at first that Woman in Heaven clothed with the Sun c. Ch. 12.1 And the same Church that triumphed over that false-accusing first Dragon in these words Now is come salvation and strength and the Kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ For the accuser of our brethren is scast down vers 10. From that time her Graces decayed till after 400 when she fell from Heaven and fled into the wilderness vers 1 6 14. After that time she retained a great part though ftill decaying of her Primitive integrity for above 800 years Then her Graces grew still weaker till they were almost wasted and near quite spent For Abraham put Bread and a bottle of Water upon Hagars shoulder and sent her away with her son She wandered in the Wilderness till the water was spent and the Child ready to perish for whom she lifted up her voice and wept But God opened her eyes to see a Well of Water and she gave the Lad drink and he revived So the Righteousness and Graces of the sealed Church are like Hagars bottle of Water She also hath wandered in the Wilderness above 1200 years till her bottle is almost spent Well may her Children and she both ready to perish sit down and weep But the Name of God written in her and their foreheads shall be a Fountain of living Waters to revive both her and them For it is not an empty crackling of Thorns in a formal profession nor the vain blaze of foolish Virgins half-performances nor litigious contradiction nor bold confidence in blind obedience nor the stony-grounds shallow superficies of found Doctrine and practice like it nor Lo here nor Lo there nor the Witnesses weak and that also now expiting Sackcloth-Prophesie that can support the Gospel-Church whiles she herself is shivered into Schisms and Subdivisions brought to the brink of the Grave and her Righteousness that should sustain her almost spent Wherefore A necessity a necessity urgent and indispensible even comples the Gospel-Church and all Ministers and Magistrates to ask of God to open their eyes that they may see the life-redeeming River of apparent Righteousness and do as Hagar and her son did Drink and not dye That is That they may find what that sacred Name of God in the foreheads of his servants shall be and seek to have it fairly transcribed in their own that so they may be a part of those first-fruits redeemed from the Earth vers 3 4. We must therefore give all diligence to make this sacred Name of God sure to our selves to know what that life-redeeming Righteousness is and how to work it But how shall we know how to work it without a pattern A pattern a perfect Patern is and hath been long wanting upon Earth where then shall we find it We must seek the Patern in the Mount And I looked and lo a Lamb stood upon Mount Sion and with him an hundred forty and four thousand having his Fathers Name written in their fore-heads Chap. 14.1 There 's the pattern in the Mount and he that holds it forth The Name of God written and the Writer of it That Lamb was a light to the sealed-Church at least for about a thousand years Ch. 20.4 But to the Conscript-Church he shall be a Temple in her a Pattern to her not for a thousand years but unto all ensuing Ages Not by any corporal presence but by the abundance of the Graces of his Spirit When he was Corporally present on Earth he was called in scorn by the Pharisees a Samaritan and was indeed that good Samaritan that left the best Pattern upon Scripture Record of perfect Righteousness to all posterity And first Jesus said A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among Theeves which stripped him of his Raiment and wounded him and departed leaving him half dead And by chance there came down a certain Priest that way and when he saw him he passed by And likewise a Levite when he was at the place came and looked on him and passed by on the other side But a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was And when he saw him he bad compassion on him and went to him and bound up his wounds pouring in Oyl and Wine and set him on his own Beast brought him to an Inn and took care of him and said to the Host Take care of him c. Luke 10.30 to 38. Saw him Not only the man but that which was right in it self and due to be done For the Priest and Levite passing by saw him but would not see to do what was right Their seeing him signified nothing So the Children of the Son of perdition see their neighbour So the sealed and true Saints commonly see their Brother Their seeing signifies little Inanimadvertency next to Avarice if not before it is the root of all evil in the body of the Apostacy of Antichrist But the wounded Man wanted speedy help There