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A70300	A true narrative of God's gracious dealings with the soul of Shalome Ben Shalomoh of the circumcision after the flesh. As delivered to the Church of Christ assembled at their meeting-house, in Rosemary-Lane, September the 29th, 1699. With some additions made thereunto since; being taken from his mouth by the subscribers to the certificate annexed to the preface. Published for exalting the free grace of God.	Humfrey, Thomas.; Shalome, Ben Shalomoh. aut	1699 (1699)	Wing H3717; ESTC R218738	17,377	32

knew there was but one Christ however I thought I would assemble my self with a sober People at length I came among the Quakers but alas there I found nothing to my Satisfaction so that I was at a Loss again and so continued for many Years going no where but lived without Christ an Alien from the Commonwealth of Israel a Stranger to the Covenants of Promise without God in the World at last my Heart began to burn within me whether thought I shall I go I pray'd that the Lord if he had any Love to me would shew himself to me in Jesus Christ for I always did even when I lived in the Flesh as many nominal Christians do look for God in the Face of Jesus Christ and point me out a way at length I came to White-chappel where my Apprehensions concerning my State were dreadful I went one Night to bed and there thought I heard a Voice distinctly saying Arise arise if you look not about you and repent not you must certainly be damned This was a sad Sermon preached to me which from a slavish Fear and Dread drove me to worship God not from a Sence of his Love but as I said from a fearful looking for of Judgment and fiery Indiguation my very Heart trembled within me Lord thought I it is high time to repent what shall I do Meeting a young Man I told him my sad Condition who told me Unless I was born again of Water and of the Spirit I could not enter into the Kingdom of God which new Birth was wholly mysterious to me What shall I do then said I I fell to weeping I pray said I help me to a Minister a good Gospel-Minister I prayed many times that God would direct me to a right Church tho' with never so much Affliction the Head whereof is Christ I have often seen as I thought Jesus Christ perfectly at the right Hand of God who has promis'd to pour out his Spirit on all Flesh and certainly it cannot be far off I am sure if I were to dye shortly it will not be long after my time who brought me to this Minister to whom I declared my Mind who went Evangetically to work with me he went far beyond Baxter Baxter drove me back but this Gentleman told me there was free Grace for all that came to Jesus Christ This proved an happy Day to my Soul he told me the Lord accepts Jew and Gentile as in Gal. 3.28 There is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither Bond nor Free there is neither Male nor Female for ye are all one in Jesus Christ after some Discourse with Mr. Humfry who made some Discovery to me of God's Way of Salvation by free Grace of the Way of the Work of the Spirit of God on the Spirit of a Man in raising him up from the Death of Sin I read in a Book in which I found the Citation of that Scripture in John 17.26 Father I have declared unto them thy Name and will declare it that the Love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them And thought I now there is an open Door to come to God through Jesus Christ it came on my Soul with such Power that it appear'd to me as if a Door had been set open for any to enter in who will how abominably vile and filthy soever they be I thought I saw Jesus Christ yea the very Godhead shining round about me through the Manhood of Jesus for in him dwells the Fulness of the Godhead bodily 2 Col. 9. And now I am perswaded whether I direct my Prayer to God the first Person in the Trinity or to Jesus Christ the second it is the same they being the same in Essence equal in Power and Glory The Quakers indeed will suffer no Man to Pray but as the Spirit moves them pretending to be guided by a Light within which is no other than the Devil transforming himself into an Angel of Light and indeed it proved but a dark Guide to my Soul But as I was reading the Book above-named it pleased God to dart in a Beam of Divine Love in Jesus Christ on my Soul tho' for about an hour and a half my Bed shook under me I quivered and trembled and thought my very Heart was broken within me Lord thought I what shall I do to be saved But it was soon cleared up to me by the Spirit of the Lord that I should be saved by Jesus Christ and by him alone and I am sure there is Salvation in no other than in Jesus Christ no there is not And now I would give my Body to be burnt yea had I a thousand Lives I would lay them all down rather then be an unbelieving Jew For saith Christ unless you believe that I am he i. e. the Messiah you shall die in your Sins and whither I go you cannot come John 8.21 24. This is a miserable Sentence to all Unbelievers I often wondred when I heard Ministers pray for unbelieving Gentiles surely thought I the Gentiles all believe in Jesus Christ But alas Believing is quite another thing than I took it to be a thing of far greater Difficulty than most are aware of He that comes to God must believe that he is every way such as the Scripture declares him to be Heb. 11.6 he must believe that all his Attributes are highly exalted and infinitely advanced in our Salvation that the Law is much more highly magnified and made honourable Isa 42.21 by the Obedience of Jesus Christ God and Man than it could possibly be by the perfect Obedience of Sinless Adam he must believe that what Christ has done and suffered for us as our Surety in our room and stead is the only Righteousness whereby we are justified before God and accepted with him and that this very Righteousness becomes ours pleadable by us by Vertue of God's Divine Act of Imputation Jesus Christ is all and in all Col. 3.11 But alas by how few are these Gospel-mysteries really and truly believed Here you see one in whom the Covenant of Abraham is fulfilled as it is in all those who believe in Jesus Christ But if you do not believe you must die in your Sins I am afraid that my Forefathers tho' I must Judge as Charitably of them as I have warrant for yet I fear lest many of them are gone down to the Pit of Eternal Destruction and yet I am a Brand plucked out of the Fire Zec. 3.2 Now if God saved not his own Covenant-Children his own Spouse those who were naturally in the Root what will become of those who are grafted in and yet believe not that Jesus is the Christ 1 John 2 22. but I know and am perswaded That Jesus Christ loved me and gave himself for me Gal. 2.20 which is the main Point and that by his Death and Resurrection my Soul is saved Mr. H. Brethren you have heard what an account Mr. Shalome has given in

was opened within me when I heard my Parents speak any thing of the Messiah tho' they would not tell me that he who was slain without the Walls of Jerusalem was the Messiah they talked of two Messiahs one that should come to be slain the other to deliver It may be that both Jews and Gentiles will in a short time be called in the Lord will call them And I wish that at this Day God would turn the Hearts of all People that they may all come to Jesus Christ Oh! the Joy the Comfort the Happiness that is to be found there There is Salvation in none other but in him whether shall we go saith Peter Thou hast the Words of eternal Life Indeed there is no other Way we must have no Confidence in the Flesh we must deny all our Comforts and come to Jesus Christ all must be laid down but Jesus Christ Mr. H. If you have Brethren any other Question to propound Mr. Shalome is very free to answer them It was desired by the Church that something might be asked him concerning his Conviction of Original Sin Mr. H. What do you think about the Pollution of your Nature Shal. What do you mean by Pollution Mr. H. Do you find any Evil workings in your Heart Shal. Yes but Jesus Christ takes them off Mr. H. Whence do you think you received this Corruption and Pollution Shal. From the first Adam for in Sin I was conceived and born in Iniquity and the Corruption of my Nature is such that it hath rendred me utterly unable to keep the Law in its Demands and therefore by the Law was I drove to Jesus Christ i. e. when I saw the Law to be so holy just and good so Spiritual and I so Carnal that it required so much and I was able to perform so little and the Gospel making a Discovery of one who had kept the Law and satisfied Justice to the full I fled for Refuge from the Law as a Covenant of Works to lay hold of the Hope that is set before me in the Gospel as a Covenant of Grace this is what I intend by the Laws driving me to Christ Mr. H. What do you when you find these evil Thoughts stirring in you Shal. What Why then I fly to Jesus Christ to that Blood which hath washed me from all my Sins and roul my self wholly on Christ Mr. H. Think you that you stand Righteous before God Shal. In Jesus Christ I do tho' not in my self for in my self I am a condemned Creature but yet I am fully satisfied that there is no Condemnation to me being in Jesus Christ tho' I may slip and fall through the stirrings of the Old Man in me which in themselves are sufficient Matter for Condemnation yet seeing my self in Jesus Christ I know there is no Condemnation to me for these Facts Mr. H. What think you of Jesus Christ's keeping the Commandments Shal. He kept them perfectly for me had he broke the Law in the least Point he had been no better than the first Adam was and we had been utterly undone Had he broke one Commandment he had been guilty of all Mr. H. Wherefore desire you Communion with this Church Shal. 1st Because Christ hath made it my Duty And 2d To Renew the Actings of my Faith on Jesus Christ Mr. Shalome withdrew Mr. H. Brethren you have heard the Account of God's Dealing with the Soul of Mr. Shalome Let me acquaint you that I have occasionally had a considerable Acquaintance with him perhaps as much as any one Man here I must needs say I think he hath given as uncontroulable a Proof of God's Dealing with his Soul by way of Conversion as any one I have conversed with since I came into the Ministry altho' his Language may be broken and his Phraseology unusual yet I have observed a true Strain of Faith run through his discourse and he hath given me sufficient Reason to conclude that he is a stronger Believer than most of us Gentiles According to the usual Custom observed by the Congregational Churches in their Admission of Members the Question was put affirmatively and negatively whether Mr. Shalome Ben Shalomoh should be admitted a Member of this Church and it passed Nemine Contradicente in the former After I came to the Lord's Supper I found much Joy and Comfort as if I lived out of the World nothing but Joy and Rejoycing I see that Jesus Christ as he is God is my Father but as Man he is my elder Brother It hath pleased God to discover something to me of the Glory of that Covenant that he made with Abraham in Gen. 17. I am assured it is a Covenant of Grace Ratifyed and Confirmed in the Blood of Jesus and doth belong to me and my Seed in their Generations so that I am perswaded and assured that my Children have as just a Right to Baptism as the Seed of Abraham of old had to Circumcision or as Believers have now to the Lord's Supper in as much as it is an external Sign of the Washing away of Sin by the Blood of Jesus Christ God hath made himself over to me in absolute Covenant made to Abraham and to my Seed as a part of me and when I take the Lord's Supper in Faith I see that as really as the Bread is broken and the Wine poured forth the Body of Christ was broken and his Blood poured forth for the Remission of my Sins when I recollect my former State that when I lay in my Blood and was led away Captive by Sin when I thought not on Jesus Christ yea before I was born Jesus Christ thought of me and laid down his Life for me and made Satisfaction for my Sin when I say I consider these things I am made to pray for the Spirit of Praise that I may glorifie God for ever who by the Riches of his Grace hath brought me in as the First-fruits of that great harvest of the Jews when a Nation shall be born in a Day which I firmly believe is at hand ERRATA PReface Page 2. line 20 lege 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 put Art 13. of Church of England to the 21 line The following PROOFS out of the OLD and NEW TESTAMENT concerning the Godhead Manhood Doctrine Death and Resurrection of the Messiah being transmitted to us we thought good to publish it which by the Divine Blessing may tend to the Conviction of the Jews and to the Building up many in their most Holy Faith who profess a Belief in the Name of Jesus Christ. Psalm 110.1 THe Lord said to my Lord Sit thou at my right hand till I make thine Enemies thy foot-stool The only begotten Son of God Mat. 22.43 Mark 22.36 Luke 20.42 The same Words as in the Old Testament Psalm 2.7 The Lord hath said unto me Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee Acts 2.34 Acts 13.33 Heb. 1.5 To which of the Angels said he at any time thou art my