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B04886	No power but of God, and yet a power in every creature, or, A word in season, to all men not void of grace, or deprived of reason wherein is held forth that the Almighty God is not wanting to us in impowering of us, but we are wanting to him, in not improving our talent for him ... / by Robert Purnel.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1651 (1651)	Wing P4238A; ESTC R187132	119,586	280

things yet they ●…nowledge me in their deeds just as those ●●rds of Paul Rom. 9. 32. Wherefore because 〈◊〉 sought it not by faith but as it were by the ●●●ks of the Law for they stumbled at that 〈…〉 bling stone Now this word as it were ●●t were unfolded as now it lyes sealed 〈◊〉 should finde most men seeking righte●●snesse if not absolutely by the Law 〈◊〉 as it were by the works of the Law 〈◊〉 Believ In this that thou hast said O ●●w I have nothing to except against for ●●e we both agree though there was a ●●s-understanding between us at first yet it true the fault is not in thee O Law that ●●n put thee in the room of Christ no ●…ore then the brasen Serpent was in fault ●●om the people did Idolize the fault ●●s in the people and not in the Serpent at this day mens seeking righteousnesse 〈◊〉 thee becomes their own evill not thine ●●d as thou hast said though men will not knowledge that they seek righteousnesse 〈◊〉 the Law yet they doe seeke it as it were by the workes of the Law Now here lyeth one of the greatest 〈◊〉 ferences between the Law and the Gosp●● both speak of working and both speak resting onely herein lyes the difference ●●der the Law before Christ was come 〈◊〉 people were to work first and rest aft●●wards that is they were to work six day●… and rest the seventh when they had d●● their work then enter into rest n●● under the Gospel we are to rest first 〈◊〉 work afterwards for as the Sabbath of 〈◊〉 was the last day of the week so our Lo●● day of rest is the first day of the week 〈◊〉 are first to receive a Kingdome that cannot moved Heb. 12. 28. and then next to se●● God acceptably with reverence and godly f●● We are first to believe and then in then●… place to shew our faith by i●● works 〈◊〉 are first to see our interest in the promis●… and then to cleanse our selves from all filthi●● of flesh and spirit Into what soever house 〈◊〉 enter we are to say peace be to this house first fore we are to shake the dust off our feet as a w●… nesse against them So much concerning fr●●dome from the Law by Christ that fulfill the Law c. What Christ hath delivered us from and restored us unto Shall onely speak of two things more 〈◊〉 briefly viz. First what we are delivered from by ●…hrist Secondly what we are restored unto First what are delivered from and here 〈◊〉 I might instance in many things I shall ●●ely make mention of two First we are delivered from sinne Secondly from death the wages of sin First we are delivered from sinne Isa 〈◊〉 6. it was all laid upon him and so we came free Rom. 6. 18. 22. verses com●●red together 1 Pet. 2. 24. 2 Cor. 5. 21. ●…atth 8. 17. Rom. 6. 11. Col. 1. 22. 1 Thess 〈◊〉 13. Secondly those and onely those that ●●e in Christ are delivered from death the ●●ges of sinne O death saith Christ I will ●●thy death Isa 25. 8. He hath swallowed up ●●th in victory 1 Cor. 15. 55 56 57. O death ●●ere is thy sting O grave where is thy victory ●●e sting of death is sinne and the strength of ●●e is the Law But thanks be unto God who ●●eth us the victory through our Lord Jesus ●…rist c. So then by Christ a believer is ●●ed from the Law First from the curse Secondly from the condemning powe●… Thirdly from sinne and Fourthly fro●… death Secondly let us a little consider as wh●● we be delivered from so what we are r●…stored unto I shall not undertake to 〈◊〉 forth this in the heigth and breadth dep●● and length but onely give a hint to it 〈◊〉 I have ability and time knowing that I a●● straitned in both Ye were servants you be now friends 〈◊〉 Christs Joh. 15. 15. And if that be too little ye are Sonn●… and Daughters If that be too little are calls you his B●●thren and Sisters Heb. 2. 11. If that be too little he calls you h●● Chosen Spouse and Wife Rev. 21. 9. If that be too little he tells you that yo●… be members of his own body 1 Cor. 12. 12 If that be too little he tells you that yo●… be heirs with him Rom. 8. 17. If that be too little to expresse the abu●…dantnesse of his love to you he tells yo●… That the glory which the Father gave to him 〈◊〉 hath given to you that you may be one as 〈◊〉 Father and he is one If that be too little he tells you Tha●… you be joyned to the Lord you are one spirit 1 Co●… 6. 17. If this be too little he tells you indeed ●…hat all these things above-mentioned are ●●t a taste of what you shall shortly be Joh. 3. 12. Oh thou most noble overcomming Saint ●●rvant of the most High God heir of pro●…ises and Son of Sion Consider what ●●ou art come from and now by Christ ●●me to Heb. 12. 22 23 24. But ye are come ●●to Mount Sion and to the City of the living ●…od the heavenly Jerusalem and unto an innu●…erable company of Angels to the general assem●●y and Church of the first born which are writ●●n in heaven and to God the Judge of all and to ●●e spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus ●●e Mediator of the new covenant and to the ●…ood of sprinkling that speaketh better things then ●●at of Abel Now manifestly and truly mayest thou ●…ay I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine ●●e that toucheth me toucheth the apple of his ●●ye My Father is so tender of me that he ●…akes all the wrongs done to me as done ●…o him●…elfe he that persecutes me perse●…utes him Act. 9. 4. And he that hath pity ●…nd compassion on me the Lord takes it as ●…one to himself Matth. 25. 40. David said Who am I that I should be son in ●…aw to King Saul but I may say Who am I that I should be Son and heire yea cohei●● to the King of Kings I was a dry a●● barren tree fit for nothing but burning b●● I shall flourish like a tree planted by t●● rivers of water O how often did he call how earnest●● did he knock how powerfully did 〈◊〉 strive how long did he wait upon me b●…fore my stubborn heart would yeeld If 〈◊〉 had never loved me I had never loved hi●… If he had never drawn me I had never r●● after him If he had never sought me 〈◊〉 had been straying in the wildernesse of in●…quity and feeding in the fields of vanity 〈◊〉 most are but now he hath avouched himself to be mine and I have avouched m●… self to be his Hos 2. 19. I will betroth thee 〈◊〉 me So I became the Bride the Lamb●… wife First Christ comes and woes me 2 Co●… 5. 20. Secondly he gets my good will and became his 1 Joh. 12. Thirdly he makes my soul fruitfull Joh.

Thus much of the nature of the Fall no●… of the manner of the Fall and of the subtil●● of the Devil that old Serpent therei●… He himself being fallen comes to the Ga●…den in the form of a Serpent out of env●… to mans happinesse he boards the woma●… thus Hath God said Ye shall not eat thereof as if he should have said It is a likely ma●…ter that the Lord cares what you eat wha●… do you think that he stands upon an apple●… hath he created all things for you then d●… ye use them This is the first assault whic●… 〈◊〉 woman weakly resisteth beginning at 〈◊〉 first to yeeld whereas God had said ●●ou shalt dye she answereth doubtfully and ●●th Lest I dye Then the Devil perceiving ●●e woman to stagger and the ground of 〈◊〉 faith to shake plants all his peeces and ●●epares his Army for a storm for his name ●●egion and he had beleagured the wo●●n before So the word was no sooner ●●t of her mouth Lest ye dye but he re●●es Ye shall not dye at all What dye with ●●ing so fair an Apple Can there be any ●●rt in it O filly woman Ye shall not dye ●●all God he affirmeth Ye shall dye certainly The woman saith Lest ye dye The Devil that old Liar saith Ye shall 〈◊〉 dye Then not giving the woman any respite 〈◊〉 be think her self or to reply Oh saith he ●●od knoweth that your eyes shall be ope●●d and you shall be as gods as if he should 〈…〉 e said God envies your happinesse and ●…ove you so well that I cannot but tell ●●u of it for he knows very well that if ●●u should but eat of that Tree you should ●●e that which you never faw before and ●●at you shall be as gods Oh impudent ●●ar for by cating both Adam and all we his posterity became more like unto Sath●… then like unto God Behold O filly w●… man saith he what a goodly Tree this how pleasant to the eye d●…licate to t●… taste divine for use can it do you a●… hurt would any but fools abstain go 〈◊〉 eat and fear not I will warrant you 〈◊〉 harm Then the woman seeing it was go●… for meat pleasant to the eyes and a T 〈…〉 to be desired after to get knowledge 〈◊〉 took of it and did eat and by these or 〈◊〉 like reasons perswaded her husband a●… gave him and he did eat O all ye sonn●… and daughters of Adam put on all the A●●mour of God If it be possible stand up●● your guard Set forth your Sentinels Ma●… ready for an Enemy which hath slain yo●… Father deceived your Mother cheated a●● almost undone all your Brethren defil●… your Sisters wounded your Childre●… and plundred all your Kindred to the sk●● and left them all as poor as Job never be peace with him maintain a continual w●… against him acquaint all the men a●● women in the world of his base deceit●● cheating tricks that his ill savour m●● stinke in the nostrils of all men and wome●… under the Sun that they may loath hi●… and stand upon their guard to oppose hi●… though his name be Legion fear him not ●●is a conquered Enemy If he meet but ●●e poor Saint in the field cloathed with ●●t a little faith as a grain of mustard-seed ●●s poor Saint will challenge all the devils ●…hell to give him a meeting and if they ●●rst to appear he will but resist them with ●…ittle faith James 4. 7. Resist the devil and will flie from you For he is a base cowardly beggerly Ene●…y he is subtle but there is one that takes ●…re of thee is wiser then he he is ancient ●●d experiences but thy friend is more an●●●nt then he he is a Prince but thy friend 〈◊〉 King of Kings he is swift of motion 〈◊〉 can fly in the air but thy friend hath the ●…avens for his Throne and the earth for his ●…otstool filling heaven and earth with his ●●essed presence though his presence is not ●…anifested to all yet he is present in all pla●●s at all times beholding all actions Oh ●●en keep the word of his patience that he ●…ay keep thee in the hour of temptation ●●ld fast the word of God for with that ●…hrist put Sathan to the worst Matth. 4 1 2 〈◊〉 4 5 6 7 8. Next stand upon thy guard at all times 〈◊〉 all places in all companies in all duties ●●eep up faith for thou and I fell in the first Adam through unbelief and we be rai●… again in the ●…econd by faith so the D●● is foiled he thought to conquer us who●● by unbelief but we shall overcome him faith Wherefore above all things take the shi●● of faith whereby ye shall be able to quench all 〈◊〉 fiery darts of the Devil Eph. 6. 16. Jam. 4 NOW I shall speak to our Restaurati●● by the second Adam and of the glo●●ous state of all those that are appointed the Father to be restored by the Son a●… sanctified by the Spirit If I had the tongue of men and Angels a●… understood all mysteries I could not give th●● a full and compleat description in each pa●…ticular of the happy and blessed state of t●● Elect by the Father that are redeemed 〈◊〉 the Son and are or shall be sanctified by t●● Spirit They were servants but now they 〈◊〉 Sons and Heirs they shall be shortly inh 〈…〉 ritors and enjoyers they once knew no●… thing they do now know in part they shall shor●● know as they are known They were dead in sinne they now a●● quickned from sinne they are or shall b●● quite freed from sinne They were naked they be now cloathe with the robe of Innocencie and they shall 〈◊〉 cloathed with Immortality They were enemies they be now recon●…led and shall be saved They once with Adam hid from the pre●●nce of God they now take delight in his ●●refence and shortly they shall abide in it ●●r ever They were Sathans slaves they now are ●●e Lords Freemen and shall dwel in Sion ●●ey were like a beast they be now like a ●…rince they shall shortly be like the An●…els They did glory in their shame they now ●●e ashamed of their sinne they shall shortly ●●e with out and shame They were like the dirt and mire most ●●thy they be now like the Moon in her ●…eauty and shall shortly be like the Sun in ●…is glory Oh the depths of the riches boath of ●●e wisdome and knowledge of God! Oh how un●…archable are his judgements and wayes past ●●●ding out What is man that thou art mindful of him or ●●e son of man that thou shouldest regard him As in the first Adam we dyed so in the second ●●e are made alive In the first we lost an earthly Paradise ●…y the second we have gotten a heavenly Paradise This is that seed of the woma●… spoken of by the Father to our first Parent●… that should bruise the Serpents head This is he that is called The repairer 〈◊〉 the

Hope your Patience and Sel●… denyal is not the Faith Hope Patience and ●…elf-denial of the Gospel your assurance 〈…〉 r Heaven is unfound you have been daw 〈…〉 d with untempered mortar the day is al●…ost come that thou must die after death 〈…〉 me to judgment and then be judged ac●…rding to thy works Then if thou doest ●●ant Oyle in thy Lamp which is Grace in 〈…〉 e heart thou wilt be shut out it will be 〈◊〉 vaine then with Balaam to fall a praying 〈…〉 ord let me die the death of the righteous and let 〈◊〉 latter end be like his No no He that will 〈◊〉 the death of the righteous must live the life of 〈◊〉 righteous Those that he appointed for ●●ory hereafter shall have the beginning of ●●ace here for they be chosen to salvation ●…rough sanctification of the Spirit and be 〈…〉 ef of the truth and without holinesse no man ●●all see the Lord. Your Leaders have caused 〈…〉 ou to erre the blinde hath led the blinde and 〈…〉 th will fall into the ditch unlesse you be●…are in time O poore Souls I cannot blame you to ●…omplain of bad suffering times to be thus ●…heated on every side you have but a Body ●…nd a Soule and to be deceived and depri●…ed of the comfortable being of the one ●…here and to have no assurance of rest for ●…he other hereafter is a sad condition indeed Oh how be the people destroyed for want of knowledge Like Priest like People as in Hos 4. 6 9. The Prophets there of doe teach for hire and the Priests divine for money and you poore simple ones love to hav●… it so O you simple ones how long will yee lov●… simplicity and you scorners delight in scorning 〈◊〉 you are deceived and by those that you least mistrusted namely the Prophets Mich. 3. 5. Do 〈…〉 but spend a little time and tracethis Trib●● from the Prophet Isaiah's dayes untill now 〈…〉 First Isaiah complains of them in his dayes Isai 28. 7. Jeremy complains of them in hi●… dayes J●● ●…0 6. and Ezekiel the Prophe●● complain of them in his daies Ezek. 22. 26. So the Prophets Daniel Hosea Joel and Amos these also complains of the badnesse of this generation Then the Prophet Micah he complains of their sins and prophesieth of their judgements Mich. 3. from v. 5. to the end of the Chapter Then when Christ came in the flesh h●… was opposed by them and complains o 〈…〉 them Matt. 23. 13 15 16. then the Apostles themselves were continually persecuted and afflicted from time to time by them as you may read in the Acts of the Apostles And if there be any truth in Histories see what a sort of Ministry there were in Henry 〈…〉 eighth's dayes when the King denied Popes Supremacy how soon did this 〈…〉 be face about and side with the King 〈…〉 en again in the dayes of Edward the sixt ●●reason of his pious resolution though 〈◊〉 young the Clergie feared a turn and ●●esently fell a preaching against the Masse 〈…〉 ok and it was soon abolished and the ●●mmon-Prayer-book set up in its place ●●d these men zealous Common-Prayer●●ok men And then about three or foure ●…ars after that Queen Mary was made ●…ueen the Clergie bethought themselves ●●d presently the greatest part of them tur●●d about again from Common-Prayer●●ok to Masse-Book for say they the diffe●●nce is not great Then after Queen Mary was dead and Queen Elizabeth had the Crown●… pre●…ently the whole tribe of them except some ●●w turned Protestants again under which shape and in which visage they have ●…ontinued untill the beginning of this pre●…ent Parliament Well the Parliament had not sate long but the Wolfe covered with Sheeps cloathing was discovered and after a little consideration it was put to the Vote and suddenly after tumbled down the Prelatical discipline root and branch Wel what follows why our Clergie for 〈◊〉 most part threw aside their Surplisse Hoods and Tippets Organs and Altar●● Bowings and Cringings Tapers and Ca●…dles and perk up into the Pulpit an●… lifts up their voices and preach again those things and so became the reveren●● laborious zealous Ministers of England thou desirest a fuller discovery of this look into what I have written before ca●…led A word to the pretended Minister and neither of these will _____ satisfie thee if thou wil●… see the Wolfe stript of his Sheeps cloathing indeed then look into the Chronicles 〈◊〉 England Scotland and Ireland Mr. Fox hi●… book of Acts and Monuments of th●… Church and his History of Martyrs c. O then take heed how you hear Luke 8. 18●… take heed whom you heare Jer. 27. 9. take hee●… what you hear Mark 4. 24. Beloved I have not written these things to take off your affections from the true Ministers of the Gospel but to disengage your hearts affections from the ravening Wolves that the Lord Christ hath commanded me and you to beware of Matt. 7. 15 and Acts 20. 29. and Joh. 10. 12. Again Believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they be of God 1 Joh. 4. 1. For many deceivers are entred into the ●…orld 2 Joh. 7. These things have I written ●…nto you concerning them that seduce you 1 Joh. 〈◊〉 26. Now that you might take heed whom you hear how you hear and what ●…ou hear and that you might not believe ●…very spirit but try the spirits whether ●…hey be of God I shall under correction ●…nd with submission to better judgements ●…ive my thought of the one of the other ●…nd endeavour to put a difference between 〈◊〉 Prelate and a Pilate a Feeder and a Flee●…er a Blinde-beetle and a Seer a Butcher ●…nd a Shepheard a Destroyer and an Instru●…ter a Tyrant and a Father a Thief and a Keeper a Seducer and a Leader a ravening Wolf and a moderate Shepheard that so ●…ou might cast off the one and embrace the other and truly herein I cannot speak in ●…allibly but give my thoughts at a distance ●…or Satan hath transformed himself into an Angel of light and his works are more my●…terious then ever the Lord cannot have ●…is Church but the Devil will have his Chappel if they will have Ordinances he will have them too if they will congregate themselves together by uniting in one spirit Sathan and his company will unite together in one form of communion and afterwards teach union If the true Church of Christ will teach first the Doctrinal par 〈…〉 and then the practical part Sathan wi 〈…〉 allow his Ministers to preach the same on●…ly with this difference he will put the●● upon building before they have laid th●● foundation if the true Chruch will buil●… upon the rock Sathan and his compan●… will build too but his foundation must 〈◊〉 laid on sand I shall now endeavour 〈◊〉 give my judgement of the pretended Min●…ster first and then of the true Minist●● next that so you might hold to the o 〈…〉 and forsake the