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A85548	The shipwrack of all false churches: and the immutable safety and stability of the true Church of Christ. Occasioned: by Doctour Chamberlen his mistake of her, and the holy scriptures also, by syllogising words, to find out spirituall meanings, when in such cases it is the definition, not the name, by which things are truly knowne.	Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury.	1652 (1652)	Wing G1594; Thomason E674_21; ESTC R207205	29,575	28

all the abundance of earthly things or shaddows of that which is spirituall the witnesse and evidence of the Spirit of God exceeds all testimonies and assurances and fills the soul with satisfaction Now in this condition they know the truth of their Lords words by blessed experience My flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed living bread that came downe from heaven and they that eat thereof eat everlasting life It is immortall food this body and blood is the resurrection and the life for they that eat this flesh and drink this blood dwell in Christ and Christ in them This food causeth union co-habitation one-nesse of mind and likenesse of affection between Christ and his Members This is the fatted Calfe that fed the prodigall this is the Childrens bread provided of God himselfe for his servant Iacob those excellent dainties sweet and fat things full of marrow the wine and milk the honey-comb with the honey with which the Lord feeds his friends his beloved and chosen ones which food doth not only cheare delight and comfort but it confirms and seals with assurance even that gold Ring that sealed the Fathers favour to his lost Son the best Robe of all the Wardrobe for there is none like it in Heaven nor in Earth for it is the Righteousnesse of the Saints it covers all nakednesse it defends from all dangers and it ever finds acceptance with their heavenly Father in all services and sacrifices for these worshippers have their hearts purged from an evill conscience and their Garments dipt in blood for the Lamb is in them and they in him And thus spirituall are their prayers also this sacrifice likewise is a broken heart and as it is the spirits habitation and dwelling so it is his place of acting and working and although the Saints themselves cannot tell how to pray as they ought yet the Spirit their continuall comforter guider and directer helpeth them and secretly prompteth them with sighs and groans that cannot be uttered with the Organ of the Tongue so inward faithfull and fervent are the spirits requests to God that only knowes the meaning thereof and for their matter they are faithfull supplications they ask in faith in the name of their Lord that is in the powerfull assistance of Christs Spirit And this is the confidence we have in him say the Saints if we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us and if we know that he hears us that is if the Spirit do so witnesse to us we know then that we have the Petitions that we desired of him for number they are but few for place private for practice and performance often and frequent Pray continually saith the Apostle And shall the Elect cry day and night unto God their Father against their Enemies oppressions and shall not he avenge them yea he will avenge them and that speedily In all their spirituall warfare this is the last and principall piece of Armour Praying alwayes with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance This Servant of our Lords had very well learned his Masters Lesson Watch and pray least yee enter into temptation and this part of their worship is spirituall as the worshippers themselves are spirituall Again their understanding the Scripture is not only litterall but spirituall and that it may the more clearly appear we must remember to make use of this distinction that the Scriptures may be spoken of as of a Body and a Spirit in the letter and the meaning thereof Now all carnall Gospellers and false Expositors as they understand no further then the letter or common gifts declared therein by the sense which such give of the Scriptures they kill Gods Witnesses the two holy Testaments Priests whose Visions are darknesse doe violate wrong and injure all the holy Writings of Gods faithfull servants and witnesses of which company a●e the Learned Clerks of Rome and all other fleshly Preachers for that Church co●sisting of the fat Beasts of the field did kill havock and slay them in such a barbarous manner in that great City of Rome which in a spirituall wicked meaning is called Sodome and Aegypt for their uncleannesse and malice against the true intent of the Scriptures that notwithstanding they had the letter and Corps amongst them yet they did deny the life and soule the mind and will of God therein revealed to be buried or inter'd in their proper Monuments the hearts of men and as they then so the same things doe all carnall Churches now that are of her old nature although of a new frame by their like lying and false Expositions and interpretations even take the life from the body and separate the soule from the corps of these two Witnesses two Prophets two Candlesticks two Testimonies two Olive Trees and two Covenants which two in all and each appellation are but one thing in the true meaning and so they shall continue to doe the remainder of the 42 months till 14 years of the whole number to come be expired In the mean while the voyce of the Church of Christ is heard from out of the Wildernesse and wholly tends to the vindication resurrection and restoration of the true meaning of the Word of God as it is written And after three dayes and a halfe the Spirit of life from God entred into them and they stood upon their feet And Gods Church fears not to speak although she cares not to be known she being indewed with the spirit of life from God and in her reading the Scriptures you shall find her full of consideration and understanding as our Lord directs her Let him that readeth consider For they that read and hear the words of this Prophecy and keep those things that are written therein and are blessed in so doing must needs truly understand them and indeed it is Sion Gods Church only that understandeth and declareth the Gospel truly by the Scriptures administration For by the Church saith the Apostle is made knowne the manifold wisdome of God which shall be more manifested in the next particular in declaring what the Ministers of the Church of Christ are And it is an undenyable truth that they are Regenerated spirituall men for if every Member of their Church be so and all their Ordinances and Sacr●fices their Communions and administrations then of necessity their Ministry must be so also and therefore in Scripture they are called Holy men of God and Holy Apostles and Prophets and are thereby distinguished from all others that are vaine and ungodly 1. They are holy personally 2. They are holy giftedly And as God hath joyned them together so I shall not seperate them in their description A Scribe instructed unto the Kingdome of Heaven is like unto a good Housholder that brings forth of his Treasury things new and old Now in that our Lord saith He is taught unto the Kingdome of Heaven it is all one as if he had

THE SHIPWRACK OF ALL False Churches AND The Immutable Safety and Stability of the true Church of CHRIST Occasioned By DOCTOUR CHAMBERLEN His mistake of her and of the Holy Scriptures also by Syllogising words to find out Spirituall Meanings when in such cases it is the Definition not the Name by which things are truly knowne Jer. 9. Trust not in lying words saying the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord c. Psal. 87. 2. The Lord loveth the Gates of Sion more then all the dwellings of Jacob Matth. 12. 36 37. But I say unto you That every idle word that men shall speake they shall give account thereof in the day of Judgement For by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned LONDON Printed and are to be sold by G. Calvert at the West End of Pauls and J. Hancock in Popes-head Alley 1652. To the Church of Christ at London Beloved of God called by the Spirit to be Saints in Christ Jesus All grace be multiplyed FAITHFULL FRIENDS IN love to you and the Truth I have undertaken in your Cause and in the right of you all to discover a counterfeit Friend whom I lately met with that did aver to my selfe and to others of your society That to be your state and condition your devotion fruit and manifestation which upon triall proved no better then carnall and sensuall And having received perfect knowledge of you by the same spirit that doth make and constitute you I could not keep silence but instantly reproved him openly yet notwithstanding that publick disclaim I made of what he said he hath since printed that which he then verbally avouched which is so unsavory and to your holy and pure nature so contrary From which aspersion to free you I have made bold to declare and make knowne your holy and spirituall birth life constitution fellowship communion hope and worship in the purity and spirituall part of Gods Ordinances your divine communion with the Father and with the Son in the Spirit your righteous Garments without you and Gods habitation with his comfortable refreshments within you your peculiar treasures and priviledges in knowing the Truth and the Administration of it also the heavenly power you have with Christ and what it is indeed to be gathered together in his name and how clear and intire you stand distinct from all other Churches that boldly call themselves by your Titles and Appellations and lay claim to your own immunities and priviledges also with such particular Letters that have passed interchangeably between us touching the vindication of you in the premises who am the Lords and yours In all humble Service In the Truth J. G. Bucklersbury the 25th of June 1652. SIR I Have twice borne your contemptuous slightings although what I moved was seasonable both for Gods glory and the present occasion And had not earnest businesse caused my long absence from London you should have heard of me before this time to have required an account concerning your great seemings to no purpose Sir As there was in times past an outward appearance that was not righteous so there is still in this present time which was as much manifested by your selfe in those Arguings where I was with you at Mr Webbs as ever heretofore by any of your Generation Now since my returne to London I have seen you have printed a Monument of your owne weaknesse which except you repent of will unavoydably redound to your great prejudice and if you will give me satisfaction in the two particulars I reproved you in well if not I shall publish not only my reproofe of those two Arguments but of every thing else you then spake of and since have printed this is the mind of him that answered your uncivill questions what he was that spake and how in profession where for habitation and his distinction for nomination who then told you he was alwayes ready to meet you at any time to discover the fallacy of your Baptisme and Church also Subscribing my Name as it is John Graunt Dwelling as abovesaid at the signe of the halfe Moon London the 9th of July 1652. Sir THe last Month I gave you to understand of your incivility towards me intimating the time and place also and because your regardlesnesse is still continued I thought good the second time to write although you denyed me to speak once and againe and to let you to know that there is not a more certaine time of sinning against God his truth and children then of suffering for wronging them For he that affirms that to be the Church of Christ that is not wrongs the Lord the Husband and his holy Spouse also And he that gives any other meaning of the Scripture then what the holy Ghost intendeth hurts and wounds the truth of Gods testimonies and his Children also Now the truth is thou art the man that hast blasphemed the Tabernacle of God and them that dwell therein affirming her to be untempered morter and fading that is true dureable everlasting And that to be the meaning of Christ Mat 16. 17. and the Apostle Rom. 10. 9 10. which was never meant nor intended by them Sir you did not consider the Scriptures when you read them if you had you might have discerned the meaning otherwise then that you have there declared and if it be possible look on the Text with a single eye and then you may perceive more then yet you have for this is a spirituall Scripture and none but spirituall eyes can discern it In the letter it runs thus upon Peters confession Thou art Christ the Son of the living God Jesus answered and said unto him Blessed art thou Simon c. For flesh and bloud hath not revealed this unto thee but my Father which is in Heaven You see the Lord pronounces him blessed because he was one that the Lord had inspired taught and instructed that it was not Peters confession as he was a naturall but as he was a spirituall man and so uttered from the Spirit of adoption as in another place the same Apostle speaking to the same purpose We beleeve and are sure that thou art that Christ the Son of the living God And as in the foregoing words he calls him Lord saying Whether shall we goe thou hast the words of Eternall life Again consider the terms he useth We beleeve and are sure this sure and stedfast Faith is that Faith which ●●y had that received him that is that loved understood and obeyed him To whom he gave the priviledge of Sonship even them that beleeve on his name And then he shewes what manner of men they are in these words Which were borne saith he not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God so then this blessed confession is from a blessed man a regenerated man the Confession of a Child of the Covenant as the Apostle Paul in the

the Spirit of the Lord foretold And they shall doe great wonders and works of great power so that they would deceive if it were possible the very elect Which kind of Faith may properly be defined thus That it is a certain undoubted confidence whereby a man beleeveth that God Almighty will by him doe this or that Miracle as the Scripture saith Through Faith in his name The third sort of the gifts of the Spirit which any man receiveth to Eternall life is called by the name of Faith and that more often then those before named which the Scripture calleth The Faith of God The Faith of the Son of God the Faith of Jesus Christ the Faith of Abraham the Faith that worketh by love the Faith of Gods Elect which is often and properly called by godly men justifying Faith and of this sort and kind of Faith all the Saints and they onely have which may be truely defined in this manner that it is a full sure and firme confidence ingraven by the power of the Spirit of God in a penitent broken heart whereby he assuredly beleeveth that all his sins are remitted and that he is reconciled and made one with God in everlasting love and favour through the Lord Jesus Christ Now the Doctour ought to have considered which of all these three sorts of Faith is meant by our Saviour in the place he alledges the last sort of Faith cannot be understood for that is included in the next tearm Baptized as I shall shew when I give you the meaning Nor the second sort for that 's not peculiar to them that shall be saved And therefore without all contradiction it must be the first sort of Faith which all the Elect of God must have in some measure or other wrought by Gods Spirit before he works either Repentance or Remission of sins which kind of Faith may well be expressed in saying that it is and it is nothing else but a sure knowledge and settled assent of the mind and heart by which a man most undoubtedly beleeveth such things as are revealed for the Salvation of mankinde Now the second Tearme in the Text is Baptized which word is likewise of divers significations in the Scripture and he ought here to have dealt like a skilfull spirituall workman as before is exprest that is in the first place to have shewed the manifold acceptations the same word also hath in the Holy Ghosts expression and then which of all the meanings by the same tearm is here to be understood which the Doctor having omitted of necessity I must do this work for him to find out the true meaning of this Scripture also Wherefore I say of the tearm Baptisme as of the tearm Faith that it hath divers disfinct and severall meanings in the Scriptures sometimes is meant by it externall elementary Baptisme that which is from below but more often that which is spirituall and heavenly from above as repentance is called Baptisme and so is Remission of Sinnes and these two heavenly operations together being Regeneration and the making parts of the New man are called Baptisme and so are the gifts of the Holy Ghost given to this New creature called Baptisme as also the enabling Grace in the holy conversation of this Child of God His mortification and vivification are called Baptisme as also are his blessed sufferings for righteousnesse sake Can you be Baptized with the Baptisme that I am Baptized with c. Now Mr. Doctour may it please you to learne which of all these distinct meanings is that which is intended by our Lord and Saviour the last it cannot be for in that our Lord speaks of the work and exercise of a New man born and not of the Birth it selfe the first it cannot be for that is from below and it is impossible for the water of the great Ocean Springs or Fountains to unharden the heart to convert a naturall man to renew the sinner to sanctifie the polluted then without all question it must be the Baptisme of Repentance and Remission of Sinnes the washing of Regeneration and Renewing of the Holy Ghost for whosoever is so Baptized doth so repent and beleeve shall be saved Now these things considered I pray see what a corrupt manner of Preaching is this of yours and how these Scriptures prove what you have affirmed let the people of the Lord judge For as you have by your false Expositions killed and taken away the life and meaning of Gods holy Word in these past instances of Divine Writ even so in like manner hath your dealing been with all other Scriptures you have made use of for which in due time and place you shall receive just reproof In the next place I should have discovered your ignorance of the Ordinance of the Lords Supper which is your confirmation of your Disciples under the power of your Ordinances as you use to say by which you doe not onely interest your selves into their Estates but have the disposing of their bodies also But I will defer that till I shall determine it rightly by the Scriptures of truth and will now take in hand the point you have spent most of your Syllogismes about concerning the Ministry of the Church of Christ and you ground your large Disputes on a Question page 2. which you frame thus Whether privat men I mean Trades-men say you may Preach the Word of God without Ordination By which it appears his meaning is they may and so goes on in all fury and in a conceit of an uncontrollable ability to make good his three fold Cord of Major Minor and Conclusion with cunning sophisticall words of Juglers as the Apostle speaks of some in his time 2 Pet. 1. 16. And the man is so confident that he thinks neither word nor spirit may countermand him but when the account of his Question is audited I think he will wish he had been better imployed for the Doctour is fallen into a mist as he was before and doth all his work in darknesse and he shall find them to prove no lesse then works of darknesse themselves by not clearing three tearms in his Question that is Private men Ordination and Preaching and that I may the more fully discover the Doctours weaknesse his question 's examination shall be by the Scriptures and then it will appear how the Scriptures meaning and the Doctours doth disagree Now we find the first tearm Private man made use of by the Apostle 2 Pet. 1. 20 21. Knowing this first saith he that no Prophesie of the Scripture is of any private interpretation or motion as some translate for the Prophesie came not at any time by the will of man c. The Apostle teacheth us here that the private man he speaks of is a naturall man and he explains his own meaning to be so in these words By the will of man that is by no naturall mans abilities whatsoever And as he denies that the Prophesie of truth and

name although not the nature of a Jew or Christian inwardly And if the Supream Authority doe not annihillate this distinction aforesaid and cause it to be forgotten in time it will pull up and advance Ecclesiasticall Hierarchy again as the Oake the creeping Ivy and a generall provision made for the many as before is expressed would supply all men in all things both Divine and humane Beloved Christian THou that hast read what is here declared for publique good see the Doctour and his doings in the glasse of one Scripture 2 Pet. 3. 15 16. the Apostle Peter speaking of his brother Paul and of his writings according to the wisedome of God given unto him he speaks of some that notwithstanding had received the common faith yet were unlearned and unstable who did wrest not onely what they said but also the other Scriptures to their owne destruction Now the tearms in the Text doe shew us plainly what these Believers were even such as should perish first because they were unlearned that is not spiritually taught of God secondly they were such as were unstable that is were not built upon the foundation neither were deep rooted as the good ground but such Christians as were lyable to wither as the stony ground to be choaked as the thornes and to loose what they had as the High-way side And such Christians as these doe not understand onely but they pervert or give false Expositions of the Scriptures those Heavenly things intended by the Text are not understood by their earthly minds therefore it is said That there are some things hard to be understood that is the Heavenly estate of the Children of God their spirituall sufferings here and their glorious hope they have of the everlasting inheritance in the World to come which supernaturall excellencies as they are in themselves are hard that is not to be understood by carnall Christians such as the Doctour hath declared himselfe to be in all his Arguments Now if any please to see the other poor endeavours of thy Faithfull Friend thou mayest have them thus nominated 1. A True Reformation and perfect Restitution 2. Truths Victorie against Heresie 3. Christian Liberty to the Lords Table 4. A Defence of Christian Liberty 5. A Cure of deadly Doctrine 6. A Lamp of Light 7. A Right Vse made by a stander by at J. G. and I. S. Disputes at Great Allhallows 8. A brief Discovery of Faigned Presbyterie and Capt Norwood's Declaration proved an Abnegation of Christ There were some other things but they are out of Print FINIS a Gods Servants in speaking the truth to the blame of such as mistake doe not reproach them for they are commanded to reprove them and must not call bitter sweet nor sweet bitter They are commanded also to call that darknesse that is so and that light that is light and to justifie the just and condemn the wicked b And to assent to the truth is tollerable with a right understanding but that you are the man that have blasted God c. is plainly proved in my second Letter and throughout the Tryall following c My words meaning if you take a true view of them doe not contradict as you shall see in my discovering of your owne daubing which you say is the Church of Christ and Gods perfect work in building his owne habitation d Do you dare to boast of pure Ordinances when all you doe in the outward without the spirituall part and meaning thereof is abominable iniquity and for bodily exercises that rotten Strumpet the Church of Rome will outdoe you although you should add your owne vanity in your lacivious washing your Damsels feet and legs also for shame bring not in your former carnality unrepented of under the Vizzard of the Churches innocency But consider what is written for in Christ Jesus neither Circumcision or Baptisme or Vncircumcision availeth any thing but a new creature And again faith that worketh by love And againe but keeping the Commandements of God Are any of these heavenly effects brought forth by your Plants Nay a bad tree cannot bring forth good fruits For all that hath proceeded from you are but sower Grapes and yet you will compare your bramble Berries with the Grapes of the Vines of Canaan e T is true you mentioned the words of Peter but your carnall discourse thereof shewed plainly you understood not his meaning neither can you til you repent and be a new man f And if your spiritual Experiences be of no higher nature then naturall Philosophy is then your experience is vaine for all things under the Sun are vanity since their deprivation through sin and the curse And as you your selfe have made use of Philosophy our Lords and Pauls use and yours is at a broad distance And that all your sill●gisms were fallacious is sufficiently proved hereafter g Here take notice what frieght of pride the Gentleman is laden with in these words Them that hear not me hear not him that sent me for every thing he hath said or written proves him not to be sent of Christ although he affirm of himselfe that he is for if I had sent him saith the Lord he should have spoken my words unto the people which he hath not as hereafter is more cleared