VIII What sure ground we have to believe this change is nigh and that many things must first come to passe Chap. IX Whether we may not expect a glorious rest before the finall appearing and what rest it will be Chap. X. A taste of divine joy and what it is CHAP. I. What a Saint Practicall is KNowledge of the Mysteries and hidden Properties of naturall things is for the most part the study and delight of the earthly man Knowledge of the divine and glorious Mysteries of God in the Gospell is the study and delight of the holy and heavenly man Mr. Venning in ingenuous and godly man hath of late in a small book of his set forth a Saint in the Theoreticall and Practicall Part in seeming contradictions yet very lively and truly I shall cast in my Mite into this Treasury though it be not worth the looking on yet it may challenge to be of the same coin though small 1. He dwells in love and love dwells in him he loves all that bear his Fathers Image a spark or a flame where he beholds his Fathers stamp he receives the person he that loveth not his brother abideth in darknesse 1 Joh. 2.11 2. He is more inwardly holy then outwardly holy he had rather be that which he seems not to be then seem to be what he is not he desires not the face of Ianus but the heart of Jesus 3. He abstaines from evill not because men may see him but God he speaks like Ioseph Gen. 39.9 How can I do this great wickednesse and sin against God The sight of God is more in his eye to affect him then the sweetnesse of sin is to allure him As I remember a Monk being tempted to Adultery the Harlot brought him into a secret place and told him none could see them there He answers her who is God is he nothing bring me to a place where God seeth not and I will commit it 4. He estimates himselfe the least of all Saints as Iohn I am but a voice and no more Mar. 1.3 he prefers all men before him yet he aspires to live above the highest Saint he would be more holy then they and yet more humble 4. He walks so exactly as if there was no Gospell yet he dies so comfortably as if there was nothing but Gospell Or thus he so strictly lives as if he were to be saved by his own works yet dies as if there was no Law his language is Pauls Phil. 3.14 I presse forward toward the marke as men run in a race striving for the mastery so doth he 6. He is never satisfied with grace but soon filled with the world Ioh. 6.34 Lord evermore give us this bread not now and then but alwayes he knowes there is more in God then can be desired and yet he desires more then he can attain to Lord feed me with the crums that fall from thy table rather then let me want if I may not tast the finest of the wheat let me have the courser so it be bread it will nourish me Davids language is his As the Hart pants after the water brooks so doth my soule after the living God not a dead letter but a quickning spirit not the title or term of a God but the living Lord nothing below himself will serve his turne unlesse I injoy God in all I want every thing 7. He is more afraid of sin then hell for he knowes where sin reigns not hell hath no dominion and yet he can say 1 Cor. 15.55 O death where is thy sting Death came in by sin take the cause away and the effect will cease 8. He respects Gods glory more then his owne profit and he will pluck out his right eye and cut off his right hand rather then God shall be dishonoured nothing is dearer to me then him who makes me deare to himselfe 1 Pet. 2.7 to such as believe he is precious or honourable 9. He is more afraid he shall not suffer for Christ then afraid to suffer for him I must saith a gracious heart tread his steps follow him to his foot injoy the Crosse and then I shall know how to weare the Crowne we must fill up the measure of his sufferings behind in the body gold is not pure till it be fire-proof all things must be tried by fire I count all things but losse and dung or dogs meat not worth the looking on my owne righteousnesse must be burnt up that where in I formerly boasted must now suffer losse I am ready not to be bound only but to die at Jerusalem for the Name of the Lord Jesus self and legall righteousnesse would pull me back from this suffering but die I must to all such carnall interests I am to be lost to the flesh that I may be found in the spirit as for outward sufferings he expects them also the ashes of holy men are the best compost to manure the Church if I die in fire God will make me out of the ashes he saith to dry bones live 10. He loves all truth for the Authors sake not for him that speaks it that truth which strikes at his sin as well as that which shewes him a Saviour Lord lead me into all truth cut out my dead flesh let not sin rule over me rebuke them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sharply or cuttingly that they may be found in the Faith Tit. 1.3 if God doth wound him he knowes it is for his good 11. He counts the highest life in the creature to be the greatest death and knowes he can never live well untill he be out of the world Psal 119.96 I have seen an end of all perfection in seeing one thing in the world he hath seen all for all in the world is but the same earth appearing in various formes and figures the world to him is but as the track of a ship at Sea soon made and soon marr'd all its beauty is but skin-deep 't is a Tohu and Bohu in a comely garb 12. He prayes more to have sin cured then to have it covered Lord take away my sin rather then the affliction leave no sore unhealed though I suffer by it yet I would have no sore left running least the dogs of this world feed upon me I would not be meat for such cormorants as Paul 2 Cor. 12.8 besought the Lord thrice against his temptation so doth he he seeks to weare out sin by his warring against it 13. He knowes his happinesse consists not in knowing the nature of God but in being made partaker of the Divine Nature a bare knowing God to be cannot make me to be such as are joyned to the Lord are one spirit 't is spirit-work to know God I must be divine as well as speak so 1 Pet. 2.3 If ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gracious notes sweet profitable tast makes judgement I must tast God to be good sweet gracious and then I shall
friends but the poor are destitute When a house is on fire men say not I will stay at home because I am rich or an Officer but all run to quench the fire so when there is a fire of an inlightened understanding kindled then we shall see Saints go to a Lazarus as well as to a Dives Knowledge is much improved in these days I wish it be as well practised 2. The second note is the coldnesse of love amongst Professors Many shall be notable quench-coales in this last age Honest Latimer saw love so cold in his time that he thought Dooms-day at hand But alas how dead are Professors now in love And the reason is because mens affections are placed upon Opinion and not upon practice Such a man is of my opinion therefore I love him this is self-love Lord what a hellish fire will this kindle May not a man be thy brother and yet not like thee in all things I would ask all Professors this question What is it you love in one another Is it the form or the power of god linesse One part divides from another because they are not in way or that way of worship But consider this is not Christ all and in all I suppose none ought to be so ignorant as to say A man is the lesse a Christian because he is not of the Presbyterian Church so called neither is he the lesse a Christian because he is not of the Independent Church so called If you all hold the Head you are of one mysticall Body and I hope will meet one day meet together as the generall Assembly and Church of the first-born whose names are written in heaven Heb. 13.23 Have fellowship then in the spirit of truth and uprightnesse Basil complains of his time That he saw more union in Arts and Sciences then in Divinity by reason of those contentions that were amongst brethren For men in disputes rather dispute for self then truth Pride will not let men submit though conscience tells them they speak against truth This coldnesse of love demonstrates the change not far off 3. The third note is the working of miracles Matth. 24.24 Men usually admire a thing done beyond their capacity such works have naturally a great force upon mans fancy As the Jewes require a signe so the zealously ignorant shall mightily follow and adore such men Many there are that out of weaknesse of judgment think there can be no preaching because the Apostles did work miracles I answer that miracles were not in any degree essentiall to make a Minister For the Apostles might preach without them onely God was pleased to use them for the first planting the Gospell And although some may expect miracles in these last times which I confesse must come to passe yet I know no place that mentions that God will send any of his people that shall work them but rather they shall be false Prophets as Mat. 13.22 testies The Papists in their Legend of lies tell the People that they are the true Church because they work miracles but they are lying miracles Signes are only for unbelievers and the Kingdom of Heaven cometh not by observation Such then as will not believe untill they see miracles wrought I may say to them as Abraham to Dives Luke 16.31 They have Moses and the Prophets if they will not heare them neither will they believe though one rose from the dead So that where working of such miracles are it is a signe of a false Prophet and I will never follow a man the more because he may have this gift 4. The fourth note is when the Gospell is going through the whole world Mark 13.10 And surely God is beginning much in this work to gather his Saints together More instruments God wil raise for this purpose then ever were since the world began For we see God is breaking down those Lawes and distinctions that hindred many men from this glorious work But I will not absolutely determine the severall wayes God useth to convert men For a man may be converted by the reading some Scriptures or by some thoughts of God that is in a sense a preaching to the heart when God speaks within him saying this is the way walk in it Sure I am that the Gospell shall run and be glorified 5. The fifth note is when the fire of love goes out then the fire of persecution comes in the brother shall betray the brother the nearer Antichrist is to his end the greater will be his rage And this must come to passe For I observe the more zealous any man is for form then power the greater persecutor will such a people be when authority is on their side The reason is Because such men do it out of conscience to God Paul was the greatest persecutor we read of among the Jewes The time shall come when men that kill you shall think they do God good service Iohn 16.2 He that is born after the flesh will persecute him that is born after the spirit Ishmael will trouble Isaac God hath pulled down one horn of this Antichrist I pray God we may not see a sharper rise in its stead when the face of Religion is onely washt but not the heart an outward reformation but an inward deformation Ier. 9.4 Then trust not in a brother for he will utterly supplant it is hardest to reconcile brethren for love causeth jealousie When you shall see the abomination of desolation Mat. 24.15 standing where it ought not surely there is no place where abomination ought to stand This alludes to Jerusalem a place where Christ and his Disciples had preached they offered sacrifice but to their own nets made a shew of worship yet under it acted abomination persecu-and injustice I pray God it may not be so with thee O England to be a professing people talk of holy walking yet in this holy place to act wickednesse injustice oppression self-seeking and covetousnesse to make Religion a skreen to all irreligious practises this is an iniquity to be punish'd by the Judge How abominable is it for one man to pretend his neighbours good yet under that notion to take his lands and livings over his head Many men make use of Religion as a stirrup to get a horse-back into the worlds preferments Lord whether will that man run horse rider and all to destruction Such men have Gods censure you eat my people as bread to shew thy selfe as if thou wouldst feed Gods people yet under it act such abomination as is odious to all as the fisher baits his hook with meat for the fish when he intends onely to make the fish meat for himself This is such an abomination which God intends to pull downe in all as he hath most gloriously begun this work so come Lord is the language of a true Israelite throw it down in me and every one The scarcity of upright unbiassed hearts notes the end nigh a reall friend like Christ who shall
find to prevent this mischiefe that may justly come upon us I advise all that professe the name of the Lord in sincerity however they are called or distinguished by the corrupt man that they would love all that be are their fathers image though it be small not for form sake but for godlinesse sake love the truth as it is in Jesus not as this man or the other man speaks it and untill this be for my part I believe divisions will increase which is the rode way to persecution Mark the words of James Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this To visite the fatherlesse children and widdowes and to keep your selves unspotted from the world J am 1.27 CHAP. IX Whether we may not expect a glorious rest before this finall appearing and what rest it will be GLorious things are spoken of this last age and divers opinions there are about it some conceive a personall reign of Christ as Rev. 20.3.4 They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years but I understand this spiritually that he shall reign in them not as he was upon earth as some dream for Acts 3.21 saith the heavens must retain him til the time of restitution of all things Some thinke this thousand years began at his birth others at his Resurrection there being books extant on this subject shall not speak more of this for to me I find not the least ground of a personall reign of Christ when he went away he never said I will come a gaine personally but I will send my Spirit that shall lead you into all truth not that I will come again in flesh upon earth and live a thousand years but in Spirit and in that place it is said they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years but it saith not upon earth for there is no such word But I must truly say there will be a glorious rest for the Saints in divers particulars As first in powring out the Spirit Joel 2.8 Acts 2.17 In those dayes I will powre out my Spirit on all flesh your sons and daughters shall prophecie you shall not say one to another know the Lord for you shall be all taught of God this promise in my judgement hath this meaning in it that we shall no longer rest in men ye shall not need that any man teach you man with his principles parts learning you shall no longer say to this man or that man teach us for ye shall all be taught of God you shall be brought off from that sottish opinion in the world that think none but men learned in Arts can teach no my Spirit that shall teach you ye shall then come to acknowledge Gods teaching in all for ye shall be made to confesse that it is not Paul Apollo nor Cephas but Christ in ail that teacheth this promise doth not overthorw the preaching of the Gospell as some men may judge but is a comparative speech signifying what knowledge shall be in these last times and no man shall therefore believe a thing true because the Minister saith so but they shall have a spirit of understanding given to know things as 1 Joh. 2.27 declares to us that as the same anoynting teacheth us so we shall judge whether it be God or man that speaks and those weak words shall be laid aside as we now say such and such a man taught me this is a destroying thy Maker therefore thou shalt say It was the Lord and I knew it not I have many times admired why Christians get so little by hearing and I find the cause to be this they go to hear men and not God and so they divide if you be not taught of God to love another you can never learn it of men Alas man is but the cane in which sugars lies the trunk through which God speaks man is but John Baptist a voice and no more this will be a blessed time when we shall give every thing its due not say such a man can teach me more then another this is a calling upon Malcham to make some King or Ruler over thee besides the true God Call no man therefore your Master or Teacher but one even God 2. Secondly there will be much love and quietnesse amongst people the Lion shall eat straw like the Oxe the Wolf shall dwell with the Lamb they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain These are metaphoricall expressions to note God will mightily restraine the spirits of men what a wonder is it to see a Wolfe lie quiet with a Lamb so it will be all Lion-like devouring tyrannizing prosecuting spirits shall be as a Lamb made still and stirre nor God will turn Lions into Lambs great abominable sinners into gracious Saints Knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the Sea that is comparatively to former times Men shall be filled with this divine wisdome the fool shall condemn the wise the weak the mighty Isai 2.4 They shall beat their Swords into plow shares what ever was as a sword to kill destroy lives liberties of one another that sword shall be turned into a plow share it shall now worke for the good of all this notes to us abundance of peace that will be in mens spirits no more cries or persections shall be heard in our streets the time is coming that persecution shall cease Mic. 4.5 All people will walk every one in the name of his God and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God all such Lion and Wolvish spirits shall be taken a-away 3. Thirdly for an outward peace how far that will extend take a few hints That certainly tyranny shall be abated much and justice shall run down like a river Esa 32.18 The people shall dwell in quiet habitations and shall sit every man under his vine and his fig tree and none shall make them afraid Mic. 4.4 No power outward or inward shall dismay them for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it the abundance of corrupt Lawyers shall be pulled down and when that is done then rejoyce O ye inhabitants of the earth for Babylon or confusion and deceit is falling and untill this be done we must expect no fulfilling of justice to run as a river we have some streames already but those deceivers stop the currents they are such as darken caunsell Luke 11.52 keep the key of Knowledge and by that gaine wedges of gold to themselves and Diana must down in all To performe this worke God faith Isai 1.26 I will restore unto you Rulers as at the first and Judges as at the beginning God sits now a refining and gives us great hopes of Judges and Rulers hating covetousnesse and selfe-ends there must be such as are like Melchisedeke to know no kindred or friend when in Authority forget all relations but doe justice to all without respect to this or that friend Levit. 24.22 There shall be one manner of Law as well for the
of a better state in Christ for him Peter who was a Disciple of Christ could never have repented of his sin in denying his Master if he had not looked upon him much less is a sinner able to repent of his sins but from a saving sight of God in Christ Now this being undeniably true then faith in Christ must be first preached And herein I know many godly men in their preaching go against their own principles who all say that repentance without faith is dead yet they preach repentance first and qualifications a man must be so and so humbled before he must lay hold upon Christ and by this means many poor souls are kept under the hatches dare not lay hold upon Christ untill so far humbled I my self having repentance being kept four years under this law and thought it presumption in me to believe my sins pardoned untill qualified Truly I must judg this to be a branch of Purgatory and meerly legall where men put knots upon a truth that it cannot be nakedly discovered to sinners on earth Object But an Objection may arise Did not Christ in his first Sermon on the mount preach repentance when he said Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand Mat. 4.17 Did not John also preach the same doctrine Mar. 1.4 so did not Peter preach the same Acts 3.19 Repent that your sins may be blotted out Answ I answer that it is true Christ did so but note it was before the Gospell was come Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand presently to follow upon it and the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 repent here signifies a change of the mind onely Christ he was a fulfiller of the Law and spoke many things as in that relation and this doctrine was suited to the Pharises who thought all was well Christ tells them they must be of another mind or els no salvation they must have another kind of faith then what they already had Now here men mistake who take repentance in the latitude of it and so suppose humiliation and sorrow must first be before faith I would ask any soul that had true repentance this question When they were in a state of sorrow for sins What made them thus sorrow Was it not first because they had offended a loving Father Or secondly had they no secret hope in them that Christ would be merciful though at present they durst not lay hold upon him why did they sorrow els if they had no dram of faith they should be saved their tears were then spent in vain I am confident never any man was yet converted but he had the sparks of faith though not flaming Therefore I may safely conclude that for any man to preach repentance before faith is not to preach the Gospell but the Law And further if they own the title of Ministers of the Gospel why then they should obey his generall command Mark 16 l5 16. Go ye and preach the Gospell he that believes shall be saved he that believes not shall be damned Surely if Repentance must first be preached then why should Christ exclude it in this great command I know not who can teach his Master and if the word Gospell signifies glad tidings as all men judge I wonder in the order of the Gospell wherein should the Gospell excell the Law if it bids men first repent and then believe this is no good newes to tell me I must first repent be humbled for ray sinnes the Law speaks this of it self such a kind of preaching is as if I should first put out a mans eyes and then bid him look upon me I. Object But some may object What is the meaning of that place in Acts 20.21 where Paul testified to the Jews and Greeks repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus 1. Answ I answer That true it is in the conversion of a sinner to God Faith and Repentance ever go together yet Faith is first in order of nature in the soule and for that place of repentance towards God I understand not that it must be preached or wrought but Paul here onely distinguisheth the objects of Faith and Repentance God considered absolutely in himselfe is the person whom we have offended or disobeyed repentance must be in respect of him God came in Christ reconciling the world to himself and so under this notion there must be faith upon Christ so that this Scripture makes nothing as to the order of faith repentance 2. Object But doth not Paul say before faith came we was kept under a Schoolmaster and the Law was our Schoolmaster to bring us to Christ Gal. 3.24 Doth not that humble us for Christ and if so then we are to be qualified in some sense before we believe 2. Answ I answer That Paul saith the Law was he speaks of it as in the time past that is to say before Christ came the Law was a Schoolemaster and we were ever learning but never able to be proficients by it but it was but untill faith came there faith is taken objectivè for the object of faith we were under the dominion and killing power of the Law not that it can prepare us for Christ for then Christ could not be a perfect Saviour And although most men interpret it by alluding to a Schoolemaster who fits Schollers for the University so say they the Law is a Schoolmaster to prepare men For my pare I rather with submission to the unbiassed judgment suppose the word Schoolemaster rather notes this that the Law had the mastership and rule over us and we was subject to what it threatned but when Christ came this Schoolmaster had us not under his bonds and punishments as if by it we could be taught everlasting life and as Christ saith Call no man your Master but one even Christ so that the Law cannot be understood in this sense that it prepares us for Christ unlesse this preparation be meant that it leaves us under condemnation Rom. 3.20 For by the Law is the knowledge of sin yet not an efficacious knowledge of sinne so as to shew us a Saviour but it will cause us to run from him And indeed take a man simply considered as obeying the Law he never cares for a Saviour thinks he is well enough as the practises of the Pharisees testifie fully to us 3. Object But how are those promises true where God calls Mat. 11.28 such as are weary and heavy laden and I dwell with him that is of a humble and contrite spirit and the whole have no need of the Physitian but they which are sick Must not men first be qualified before God call them 3. Ans I answer First these places do not demonstrate that every man must be so before faith but only declares that it is possible men are and may be by the Law so terrified for sin yet this also is by the spirit altough they may have terror yet this cannot be true humiliation
but a legall afrightment for sin These promises are only to testifie Gods bowells of compassion to such as well as others and from his mercy calls them to believe in him meaning as I candidly interpret it that unlesse God calls them they wil stil be mourning and think they are not qualified sufficiently for him and therfore God manifests his love towards them 2. Ans But secondly I answer if the Gospell must be preached only to such upon conditions then I ask how can it be a free Gospell which notes it comes without any such conditions to be performed by us And further how can a man follow Christs command to preach the Gospell to every creature if qualification in any sense must go before Paul teacheth us another lesson Tim. 1.15 This is a faithfull saying Christ came to save sinners of whom I am chief he saith not if they are humbled but calls to sinners indefinitely qua sinners Christ comes to give us faith that we may be humbled Qu. But may not repentance then be preached yea in its proper place as a fruit of faith I would have all that go under that noble title of Preachers of the Gospell to consider Pauls speech to the Corinthians 2 Cor. 5.20 Now then we are Embassadours in Christs stead as though God did beseech you in us We pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God That is to say we speak in love to you that through love you may receive and believe that testimony which God hath given of his Son and what is this testimony but to believe that record that God is a Father to us in Christ I might mention divers other places where Faith is first laid down as Acts 8.37 where Philip said to the Eunuch If thou believest with all thy heart thou mayest so Joh. 6.29 when they asked what they should do to be saved why Christ answers This is the work of God that you believe on him whom he hath sent To end this question with that place in Acts 5.21 Him hath God the Father exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance and remission of sins this is plain Christ gives repentance but how through faith Therefore Christ must first be discovered according to the whole tenor of the Gospell CHAP. III. What Prayer is THe glory of man is to understand truth distinctly without confusion Prayer in generall is the going out of the heart to God from a divine discovery of a greater good then man hath yet attained Men cannot pray for that which they apprehend no need of emptinesse is the womb that produceth Prayer and as fire is the cause of heat so the sense of a want of God draweth forth the spirit to cry after him Before Adam fell there was no necessity of Prayer for he wanted nothing neither do I conceive if Adam had stood Prayer had ever sprung forth so that we weare it as a badge of our imperfection in this life Qu. Whether it be the externall voice that makes Prayer some think that no man can be said to pray unlesse he speake with his tongue Answ I answer That the externall delivery of words cannot be a substantiall part of Prayer for if it be then I may teach a a Parrot to pray but thus far I acknowledge that it is the outward forme and that which God hath instituted to be amongst men for no man can say I pray unlesse there be utterance and in outward expressions another Saint judgeth of my heart so that as to outward appearance no man can demonstrate anothers praying but from the heart to the tongue But let us take heed of confining prayer onely to a way of utterance for I prove that a Christian may pray and never speak a word as in Rom. 8.26 The Spirit helps our infirmities with sighs and groans unutterable Sure then the tongue cannot manifest what is in a Christian many times when he prayes for these sighs and groans are the immediate goings out of the heart which there is a want in words to expresse Further the Spirit saith Pray alwaies sine intermissione 1 Thes 5.17 Without any ceasing for so the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies now no man can verbally pray alwayes for if so then he could have no oportunity to do any other exercise If it substantially consist in voice how then shall a dumb man pray some were born tongue-tied yet I hope no man wil say they may not pray so likewise I would ask how many or how few words make a prayer if properly that be any thing as to the substance what made the Publicans saying God be mercifull to me a sinner there were but six words was it not his heart that made it a Prayer yea sure Put I conclude this with Hannahs Prayer I Sam. 1.12 When she praved Eli marked her mouth now Hannah spake in her heart only her lips moved he thought she had not prayed because he heard not her voice but the Spirit saith she prayed alas many are not able to speak words as other men can shall we conclude upon that that they may not pray God doth not so much respect what words he utters but with what heart he cries to him therefore let none justle out one truth with another for a Prayer is demonstrated both wayes yet I say he that hath the spirit of prayer will use both and let no Professor judge prayer only in outward appearance as the world doth but judge righteous judgement This I hint at onely for the comfort of some Christians that want words to expresse their heart CHAP. IV. Whether a justified person may pray for the pardon of sin THis question not rightly understood makes a difference of judgements amongst men some saying we ought to pray for pardon others we ought not And it may seem strange that one justified pardoned should after this pray for pardon of those sins that are already pardoned this may suppose Christ hath not fully satisfied so then the question will be whether we may pray for pardon of such sins as are done away by Christs death For I say this is undeniably true that the Father is fully satisfied for all the sinnes of those which believe on him To understand this then I understand pardon with this distinction that there is a two-fold praying for the pardon of sin The one is as to a Judge The other is as to a Father Now the right apprehending these two will resolve the scruples 1. First then as to a Judge I may after the manner of men give this allusion God sits as a Judge upon the Bench to execute Malefactors Now for a believer to pray unto God for pardon under this notion is not according to truth for I am not now to suppose God sits as a Judge to me and so pray this is only for unbelievers as I may demonstrate it by this instance The Judge that sits in the seat of Judicature hath many