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A47746	The history of sin and heresie attempted, from the first war that they rais'd in heaven through their various successes and progress upon earth to the final victory over them, and their eternal condemnation in hell : in some meditations upon the feast of St. Michael and all angels.	Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.	1698 (1698)	Wing L1135; ESTC R11401	44,933	69

be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the Breadth and Length and Depth and Height And to know the Love of Christ which passeth knowledge that thus ye may be filled with all the fulness of God Observe how the Inspir'd Apostle Rejoyces even to Extasie upon this Subject The fulness of God that is all we or any Creature can hold of Him consist's in what we Understand of the Nature of Love And then to our Eternal Comfort the Love of Christ passes all Knowledge that is no Knowledge can comprehend it all and therefore it can afford still new Matter of Joy and Rapture to all Created Understandings for Ever and Ever And may not this Contemplation raise us to the Courage of an Apostle it will certainly if we let this Good Seed stay in our hearts till it take Root if we do not choke it with the foolish Principles of Pride or make it give place to Cares and Riches and Pleasures of this Life it will bring our hearts to the firmness of an Angel and make Us see nothing that can Terrifie Us We will be ready to joyn with St. Paul in his holy Exultation and say Who shall seperate Vs from the Love of Christ shall Tribulation or Distress or Persecution or Famine or Nakedness or Peril or Sword as it is Written for thy sake are we kill'd all the day Long we are counted as Sheep for the Slaughter nevertheless in all these things we are more then Conquerors through Him who Loved us for I am perswaded that neither Death nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers nor things present nor things to come nor Height nor Depth Rom. viii 35. nor any other Creature shall be able to Seperate Vs from the Love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. And now as a Conclusion to all that has been said we may learn this that the best Guard we can have against falling into Heresie is to Watch carefully against all the Inroads and Temptations of Pride which I have shewn to lie at the bottom of all Heresies as the Source from whence they Spring It Corrupts the Will and by that Viciates the Vnderstanding and Inclines them by a strong Byass to the side of Error and in Prejudice of the Truth which is always Founded upon and Accompany'd with the opposit of Pride that is Love and Goodness which is Naturally Productive of a Sweetness and Humility of Temper that Renders us Docible and Vn-prejudic'd without which Truth cannot be Duly Discern'd but is Clouded from Perverse and Obstinate Minds And as the Humility of Love is the best Preservative against Error and Heresie so is it the surest Defence against most sort of Sins in our Private Conversation especially it Enables us most Effectually to Perseverance in the Faith against that Fiery Tryal of Persecution which in one sort or other 2 Tim. 3.12 comes to most Mens share that will live Godly in Christ Jesus But there is an higher Pitch of Perfection even than this And that which I wou'd raise Men to and desire to Imitate my self is that whereof the Dayly Exercise and Improvement is by Gods great Mercy and Goodness afforded to every one of us which is not only to bear the Persecution or the Pride of others which some may do even out of Pride Obstinacy or other Vicious Principle But chiefly to banish Pride out of your selves to look upon the meanest Man in the World as a Member of Christ and so equal to your self And therefore to Condescend to the Lowest Offices that may do him Good to bear his Infirmities and Injuries with Patience which is the true Magnanimity as Christ also did bear ours And that you think this so far from being Dishonorable as that you may esteem it the Greatest Glory and Praise of Love wherein the Happiness of Heaven does consist And if Angels were thrown out of Heaven for Despising Man and Christ Died to Redeem Man and is Himself a Man and Loves and Values the meanest Man what is that Man that Despises another And if even in Heaven there was War and Folly and Blasphemy among the Angels there and misunderstanding the Nature of God how shou'd this make us Patient to one anothers Infirmities How Solicitous and careful to Secure our selves How Reasonable will it hence appear to keep a watchful Eye upon the least progress of Pride or Self-conceit which was Potent to Disturb the Seat of the Blessed and overthrow Spirits which were Heavenly-Born That therefore you shou'd justly abhor the Pride of this World to see a Man Despise not only his Inferiors which was the Sin of Angels but his Equals and Superiors To think himself beyond every Man he meets and that it is below his Greatness Forsooth to receive an Injury from any this is the Character of a Hero so much courted in Romances and Plays the Gospel of this Worlds Honor a Fool swell'd with Pride even to Blasphemy Is it not Nauseous to see Him brave Thunder whose Scull is not proof against the sliding of a Tyle from a House top a weak piece of Flesh whose Foundation is in the Dust the food of Worms that is crushed before the Moth A man that is not able to Encounter a Disease to hear him Railly against God! and to think this either Wit or Courage that Men of Spirit as they call themselves shou'd be fond of a Vice which proceeds Meerly from want of Sense And not rather to follow the Advice and Example of a God which is that you wou'd think it your Greatest Honour to become Innocent and Harmless Loving and free from Pride as little Children are which is taught in the Gospel for this Day and that with such Courage that you wou'd rather Choose to Pluck out your Eyes and Cut off your Hands than to Offend the Least the most Inconsiderable of Mankind who are Created by God after His own Image and are the Price of the Blood of Christ That you wou'd believe the Argument of Honour to be Decided which has been Bandy'd by the Angels of Heaven and Determin'd there by God Himself that it Consist's in Love and not in Pride but more sensibly by the Incarnation and Sufferings of Christ which makes it as it were Visible to our Eyes That you wou'd therefore suffer your selves to be perswaded by your own Reason which will shew you the restless Miseries which attend upon Pride and the Beauties and Great Glory of Love in the which if ●●u can 〈…〉 selves you have already tasted of He●●●● and are Heirs of Immortal Honour Amen And let this Comfort us in our Faint Longings Languid Attempts and many Failings in our Spiritual Warfare And let this silence all our weak Murmurings at the Providence of God which has for Infinitly wise Ends not Fathomable by us Permitted the Fall of Man and Wars and Divisions upon Earth since for this End no Doubt among many others He has made known to us that There was war in Heaven And that as the Conquest can be only by His Strength and Grace in us so it will End in Infinit and Eternal Victory and Triumph to those who Trust wholly in Him by Faith in Christ Humbled and Crucifi'd for us and who follow him Manfully to the end of that Race which He our Great Prophet and Guide has not only Pointed out to us but as our Captain has Led us and Run before us and Fought the same Fight which He wou'd have us to Fight and wherein he will Assist us and Protect us that the Gates of Hell shall never Prevail against us And has already in Our Cause and in in our Name and Nature Triumphed over every Power of the Enemy and taken Possession of Heaven for us as our Head the Soul and Life of that Body whereof we are Members And as the Soul do's Actuate all the Members of the Body consequently it must Raise all the Members with the Body So that all who Partake of the Spirit of Christ are sure that that Spirit must Raise up their Bodies as Certainly as it did Raise up the Body of Christ Rom. viii 9.11 Now if any Man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of His But if the Spirit of Him who Raised up Jesus from the Dead dwell in you He that Raised up Christ from the Dead shall also Quicken your Mortal Bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you Amen FINIS

People of God in Scorn call'd Quakers p. 126. for say they we can never call the Bodily Garment Christ They deny that Christ had Properly any thing Human either Soul or Body That the outward Person which suffer'd upon the Cross was Properly the Son of God we utterly Deny says their Serious Apology wrote by Will. Penn p. 146. They Dream that Christ had a Spiritual Body before the Creation and that He has the same now in Heaven but not that Body of Jesus of Nazareth which He took of the B. Virgin and which suffer'd upon the Cross The Eutychians held that the Humanity of Christ was Absorpt or swallow'd up in His Divinity so that there Remain'd not now any Human Nature in Christ Agreeable to this the Quakers allow not Christ to have now any thing that is Human about Him But to have Divested Himself of all that when he Ascended into Heaven where they say He now is only as he was before the Creation In short they make what they call their Light within to be not only a Ray Influence or Inspiration sent from Christ but to be the very Essential and Personal Christ as well Body as Spirit and that He has no other Body or Spirit but what is within them For a further account of these men I Refer the Reader to a Book call'd The Snake in the Grass and to another wrote by the same Author Intitul'd Satan Dis-Rob'd And so Proceed to another less Famous Sect amongst us call'd the Muggletonians These with the Quakers deny any Distinction of Persons in the God-Head and Consequently they run into the the old Heresie of the Patri-passians thence so call'd because they held that it was God the Father who was Incarnate and did Suffer upon the Cross To this the Quakers agree and George Fox the Father and Founder of them in his Great Mystery p. 246. Disputes against those who said that it was not God the Father who was Incarnate Lodowick Muggleton who Arose the same Year with G. Fox An. 1650. And his Followers say that the God-head Dy'd upon the Cross and that there was then no God But that God before He was Incarnate Deputed Elijah to Govern in His Absence that Elijah Rais'd Him again from the Dead and Restor'd Him to His Throne That Christ who was God the Father did not know Himself to be God or any more than Elijah pleas'd to let Him know That Elijah was the Father to whom He pray'd upon the Cross They strick in likewise with the Anthropomorphits as John Bidle the late Celebrated Socinian and say that God from all Eternity had a Body and of the same Shape as Man's Body and that being made after the Image of God referr'd to the Shape of His Body They pretend to Discribe His Shape a Middle-siz'd Handsom Man and such like most Vile and Ridiculous stuff These Batteries the Devil has Rais'd of several Shapes and Sizes against the Truth of the Incarnation of Christ This he is not able to Digest or Understand aright and Seduces his Weak but Envy'd Rival Man by such Multiplicity of Subterfuges as he has Invented This is the Great and Fundamental Head of that War which the Devil now carrys on upon Earth And there is another which is Like unto it and Depends upon it Namely The Doctrin of Satisfaction which the Devil opposes upon the same foot with the Incarnation for they are Both so closely Link'd together as that the Doctrin of Satisfaction supposes the Incarnation and Death of Christ without which no Adequat Satisfaction that is No Satisfaction cou'd have been made to Justice for the Sin of Man And on the other hand no Rational Account can be given for the Incarnation and Sufferings of our Saviour but to Satisfie the Justice of God for our Sin For all other Considerations of Christ as a Prophet a Teacher a Mediator or Intercessor might have been Executed either by an Angel or Holy Man thereunto Commissionated by God And that without any Necessity of the Death of such a Messenger But to make Adequat Satisfaction to the utmost Demand of Infinit Justice for all the Sins of the World to Pay this Infinit Debt Exceeded all Created Sufficiency and cou'd be Perform'd by none but God alone And the Doom of Sin being Death without shedding of Blood there cou'd be no Remission Which Infers the Necessity not only of Christ's Incarnation but His Death And it was not Possible the Cup should pass from Him if He wou'd Redeem lost Mankind If it had been Possible sure His Father wou'd not have Refus'd what He so Passionatly and in so Bitter an Agony Three times Requested His Father wou'd not Causlesly Luk. xxiv 46 26. Mat. xxvi 54. have so Exposed His Beloved Son in whom He was well Pleased No. But as Christ Himself has told us It thus Behooved Him to suffer That He Ought to have suffer'd these things And That Thus it Must be When God in His All-wise Providence had so far Permitted the Spirit of Pride and Malice as to seduce Mankind into Disobedience the Devil then thought he had in some sort even Conquer'd at least over-reach'd the Almighty For thus He Argu'd with himself If God's Justice be Exact by which I Suffer then must Man be Eternally Miserable with me for He is less able than I am to make any Satisfaction for his Sin And thus have I Ruin'd my Hatred and Dispis'd Rival and even by the Necessity of God's Nature which is Justice I have forc'd Him to Damn that Base Human Nature which He wou'd joyn into His own Person Post-poning the more Noble Angelick Nature which is thus Reveng'd And the Devil thought himself Secure and Impregnable in this his Pride and Malice For if the Nature of Justice which is God cannot Acquit without Full Satisfaction and that the Satisfaction for Sin must be Proportionable to the Person against whom the Sin is Committed which is Infinit And that the Penalty must be Death And that God only is Infinit and that God cannot Dye And again That the same Nature which Offended must make the Satisfaction And that Human Nature was far from Infinit and so cou'd make no Satisfaction I say upon all these Accounts the Devil thought Man's Cause to be Irremediable and Desperate and that in this he had Prevail'd against God for Ever But God thus far Permitted His Enemy thereby to shew forth more Gloriously the Riches of His Grace and the In-Exhaustibility of His Wisdom For by the Ever-Adorable Mistery of God Manifest in the Flesh and suffering Death for us upon the Cross all the above seemingly Insuperable Difficulties are Dissolved like Ice before the Fire For Here is Satisfaction made by the same Nature which Offended and the Satisfaction is Full and Adequat because the same Person is God And tho' the God-Head cannot Dye yet the Person which is God may Dye As the Soul of Man does not Die but the Man who has