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A94749	A synopsis, or, Short view of essential Christianity in part, in which the first fruits unto God, (or saints) in the Apostles dayes lived. : According to the doctrine of Christ ... : With some explications or enlargements thereupon. : Tending to the edification, comfort, and refreshing of all sorts of people ... / By William Tomlinson ...	Tomlinson, William.	1684 (1684)	Wing T1853; ESTC R185375	44,494	110

him back from the error of his wayes but he had not this Holy abideing Unction And so may others have the gift of Prophecy and understand many mysteries c. and yet be destitute of this Anointing as its plain from the Scriptures Psal 68.18 Mat. 7.22 1 Cor. 13. But I am sparing of speaking of these things because the same gifts may accompany the true Anointing and these gifts are serviceable for the edifying of the Babes of Christ Therefore let none think that I would undervalue such precious gifts or teach others to despise Prophecying that is not my purpose but only to give the right understanding of that which is essential to Christianity and a Heavenly life in which true believers walk with God Who doe not alwayes bear the greatest show in their profession by such gifts nor bear forth themselves the highest among their Brethren but yet their lives are most innocent in the World I have seen in several professions of Religion this humble seed this plain hearted this true hearted Jacob bowing under his rough Brother Esau and like a little shrub under tall Cedars which flourish and spread forth themselves over his head for their inclination is to exalt themselves his care to keep out of vain-glory and to walk humbly with his God Thus in some measure the Children of light who are the first Fruits unto God are distinguished from the Children of darkness who are of the World and therefore love the World and the things that are of the World namely the lusts of the Flesh the lust of the Eyes and the pride of life I doe not mean that hereby they are made so distinct one from another that they may certainly and fully be known in the World but my endeavour is so to discover the essential life of Christianity to themselves that they may not rest in a formal and circumstantial profession of Christianity without the true life and power thereof wherein true peace and fellowship with God is enjoyed and lived in which indeed is the Kingdom of God Which at first may be but like a grain of Mustardseed but it is of a growing nature Therefore many may for a time in an outward profession outshine those that are entring yea and entred into the Kingdom But these last will become first and those first will become last For the seed of the free Woman or new Covenant born by promise and begot by Faith will become Heir when the seed of the bond Woman borne after the Flesh must be cast forth These things here written are no new things but according to the current of the Doctrine of Christ and his Holy Apostles left upon Record But it may be some Objections may be made against them by some For Truth doth usually meete with Opposition Obj. Perhaps some will say these things speak of the Kingdom of God here in this life but we look for the Kingdom of God after this life Answ True the Kingdom of God is here spoken of to be entred into in this life but not in opposition to the Kingdom of God or Kingdom of Heaven hereafter but as an entrance into the everlasting Kingdome which shall have no end For the Kingdom of Heaven is begun here and entred into by faith which works by love and purifyes the Heart And therefore when Christ Jesus our Lord sent forth his Disciples to preach and to heal the sick he bid them preach saying The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand And he told the Jews that the Kingdom of God commeth not with outward observation but that the Kingdom of God was within And the Apostle tells us wherein it doth consist namely in righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit For the Spirit that comforter administers that joy And this is the earnest of the everlasting inheritance and it is the beginning of his Kingdome into which the Saints witnessed an entrance formerly Col. 1.13 who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the Kingdome of his dear Son And the Apostle Peter tells us how an entrance shall be ministred unto us abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1. A place of Scripture worthy to be Printed in every ones Heart seeing it teaches an abundant entrance into the Kingdom of God In which things there written the Saints then living were found walking and yet being of so great importance the Apostles care was to put them still in minde of them that after his decease they might alwayes have them in remembrance I shall give you some of the words and leave you to read the rest in your Books Peter writing to those believers who had obtained like precious Faith with him and other Apostles through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ note not through their own rightousness but through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ he exhorts them to give all diligence to add to this Faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience Godliness and to Godliness Brotherly kindness and to Brotherly kindness love For if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall not be barren argues slothfull nor unfruitfull to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ But he that lacketh these things is blinde and cannot see far off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins Wherefore the rather Brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye doe these things ye shall never fall For so an entrance shall be ministred unto you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Now take notice that it is not the knowing of these things but the walking in them that gives an abundant entrance into the Kingdom If ye doe these things saith the Apostle Obj. Doubtles It is a happy thing to walk and live in these Admonitions of the Apostle may some say But who is there that do so We know but few if any that do so then how few enter into the Kingdom if so great and high things are to be lived in Answ For answer hereunto consider these things following 1. That there be various stations in Religion and so some are nearer and some further off from the Kingdom of God Some are seeking it with their faces thitherward as it s said of Sion some are weeping and mourning and hungring and thirsting after Gods Righteousness These if they hold on are under a blessing and promise to be answered and filled and though they be poor in Spirit yet theirs is the Kingdome and in due time they shall possesse it and enter into it Some are near the Kingdom as that young man was who had keept the precepts of the Law from his youth which Christ looked upon and loved though he was not yet able to enter into the Kingdom because of his riches

Others are set down in the Kingdom of righteousness and peace and joy in Christ Jesus As the Apostles and many believers or Saints were in the primitive times For which they magnifyed the Lord for his rich mercy towards them in raising them up and making them sit together in Heavenly places or Heavenly things in Christ Jesus Eph. 2.6 2. Now consider further that these who in earnest seek the Kingdom of God or are already entred into it doe not alwayes make the greatest shew or appearance in the World They are like that Mercant man that having found treasure hid in a Field goeth and hideth it lest he should be robbed thereof and for joy thereof he goeth and selleth all he hath and buyeth that Field He boasteth not of his treasure but carefully purchaseth it So it is with many that are seekers and possessors of the Kingdome of God And therefore are not made so visible in the World though they live in the World Nay many times the World looks upon them as fooles or conceited People not seeing the Heavenly treasure which they pursue or possesse but afterwards shall be made to see it to their amazement Read Wisdom of Solomon chapter the 5th which sheweth how the wicked shall wonder at the strangeness of the Salvation of the righteous beyond all that they looked for Some may be without that in their Books it being in the Apocrypha therefore I shall here give you part of it beginning at the last verse of the 4th chap. to the 10th verse of the 5th where Solomon shews the different end of the righteous and wicked And when they cast up the accouts of their sins they shall come with fear and their own iniquities shall convince them to their face Then shall the rightous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him and made no account of his labours When they see it they shall be troubled with terrible fear and shall be amazed at the strangeness of his Salvation so far beyond all that they looked for And they repenting and groaning for anguish of Spirit shall say within themselves this was he whom we had sometimes in derision and a proverbe of reproach We fools accounted his life madness and his end to be without Honour How is he numbred among the Children of God and his lot is among the Saints Therefore have we erred from the way of Truth and the light of righteousness hath not shined unto us We wearied our selves in the way of wickedness and destruction yea we have gone thorow deserts when there lay no way but as for the way of the Lord we have not known it What hath pride profitted us Or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us All those things are passed away like a shaddow and as a Post that hasteth by c. Hence you may see how little they are taken notice of in the World who are Heirs of the Kingdom of God and how little they are discerned to be what they are And lest you should think that because these words are quoted out of the Apocrypha they have not weight in them hear Paul speaking to the same purpose 1 Cor. 1.26 c. For ye see your calling Brethren how that not many wise men after the Flesh not many mighty not many Noble are called But God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the World to confound the things that are mighty and base things of the World and things which are despised hath God chosen yea and things which are not to bring to nought things that are that no Flesh should glory in his presence Thus the Lord will confound the thoughts of men and make that last which was first and that first which was last and that highly esteemed which was despised and that despised which was highly esteemed And though the Heirs of his Kingdom be scarcely discerned in the World yet will he finde out a numberless Number out of all Nations Kinreds People and Tongues that shall inherit it such as the World takes little notice of they being a People comming out of great tribulation in which they have lived in the World Therefore let non say Where shall we finde such a People as live in the Kingdom of God but let them desire of the Lord that he would open their Eyes to see them whom he ownes and admits into his Kingdom Read Revel the 7th ver 9. to the end The Lord doth put the treasures of his Kingdom into Earthen Vessels which not being beautifull to the outward Eye are therefore overlooked and not seen by the curious Eye As it was said of our Lord and Master there is no beauty in him that we should desire him the same also may be said of his followers But wisdom is justifyed of her Children Look upon the rough and withered or deadlike coat of the Vine specially in Winter and one would think it good for little except to be consumed by the fire So are the branches of the true Vine many times to the outward Eye and therefore not regarded by the World as the strong Oakes and Trees of the forrest are or as the losty Cedars of Libanon which are seen a far off The Lord had reserved to himself 7 thousand who had not worshipped Baal even in the great Apostacy of Israel in Ahabs time whom Elijah the Prophet could not see So in the great Apostacy of Professed Christianity the Lord hath a numberless Number who are sealed who stand before the Throne and before the Lamb cloathed with white Robes and Palmes in their hands glorifying God and ●scribing all Salvation to our God which siteth upon the Throne and unto the Lamb. As you read in that 7th of Revel Thou that ●anst not see a People fit for the Kingdom of God canst thou see a People that work ●ighteousness The Apostle tells us that eve●yone that doth righteousness is born of God 1 ●oh 2.29 Dost thou see any People dwelling 〈◊〉 a Spirit of love The same Apostle tells ●s that every one that loveth is born of God ● Joh. 4.7 Another Apostle tells us that 〈◊〉 every Nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him Act. 10.35 The Apostle doth not tell us that every one that can magnify themselves in a form of Religion are accepted but he that worketh righteousness only There is a Pharisaical Eye which can see none righteous but such as are in their own form But God seeth not as man seeth There is also a prophane and hatefull Eye which hates the appearance of righteousness and holiness because it is a chain to their loose prophanes and wickedness these also through the myst of enmity and hatred cannot see the Servants of the living God over whose consciences he rules and so hath a Kingdom there and they in it submitting to his requirings as true Subjects