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Christs gratious message from the throne of grace to all the prisoners of hope by Timothie Batt.
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Batt, Timothy, 1613-1692.
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in thy presence condemned by their injudiciall sentence to free them from condemnation I stood in the place of Manasseth that Idolater in the roome of Paul that Blasphemer in the stead of Peter that denier when mine could not beare the heate of thy burning wrath and indignation I stood and beare their iniquities when they could not tread the winepresse of thy fury I trode the winepresse for them thou laydst the sins of mine upon my shoulders thou didst cast thy darts through my sides I was wounded I was chastised I was broken to peeces for them being made sinne for them who being thy sonne knew no sinne that they might bee made the righteousnesse of God in mee Now there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walke not after the flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8.1 I have made death temporall a bed of downe a place of rest and a sweete passage to my glory did Israel passe through the red sea and the waters did not overwhelme them did Judah and Rheuben passe through the waters of Jordan those did not offend them and shall not mine passe through the gates of death and shall that destroy them no I have taken away the death of death spiritual I live in mine by hope I have made them to cast Ankor in the throne of my grace and dearest mercy in whom wee have an Ankor of the soule safe and firme entring into that which is within the vaile Heb. 6.19 Which hope we have as an Ankor of the soule both sure and steadfast and which entreth into that within the vaile I live in them by love I have made them live in Me by my love So that there love to me is above treasures riches and honours above Father Mother wife and children above bonds chaines and fetters above temptations anguish or tribulation above the malice of the Divell the terrours of the law the horrours of hell the darts of the world and the warres of the flesh I have made them to leave all thinges terrene and earthly and to pitch on those things which are high and heavenly My love to them in their value and estimation is above Rubies Saphires pretious gemmes carbuncles and pretious Iewels ten thousand mountaines of gold in their sight are undervalued I am the chiefest of ten thousand the loves of men and women are disaccounted sith my love to them is above the loves of Jonathan and David The freenesse of my love hath made them love me intirely and freely and the eternity of my love hath made them love Me eternally hence have I spoken of them John 17.28 And I have made knowne to them thy name and will make it knowne that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them I have made them live the life of faith though their faith overcoms the world and this is the victory that overcommeth the wold even your faith 1 Joh. 5.4 though their faith repulseth the fiery darts of Satan above all taking the shield of faith whereby ye shall bee able to quench the fiery darts of Satan Ephes 6.16 Though their faith is more pretious then gold that is tryed in the fire That the tryall of your faith being much more pretious then of gold that perisheth though it bee tryed with fire might bee found unto praise and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.8 Notwithstanding it is mine I make them to beleeve in my Father and in my selfe whom hee hath sent I made them my beloved injoyers of eternall life glorie and beatitude I made them to abide in me by faith whilst I abode in them by love the truth thereof is witnessed by my Apostle I am crucified with Christ neverthelesse I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life that I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the sonne of God who loved me and gave himselfe for me I also have taken away death eternall for I have reconciled mine to the Father by an everlasting reconciliation I have brought with mee the everlasting robes of righteousnesse I have taken away all their sinnes iniquities and transgressions by my blood most pretious I have made them one by union that they might enjoy a being in Me and in my Father Hence the second death shall have no power of them I my selfe have spoken it Apoc. 20.6 Blessed and holy is hee that hath part in the first resurrection on such the second death hath no power but they shall be Priests to God and of Christs and shall raigne with him a thousand yeares What hath the world to say to my people true it is they have beene drunkards persecuters blasphemes they have beene alienated from my glory estranged from my love and without my presence in the world but I have washed them in the purest fountaine I have made their scarlet die whiter then the snow their bloody crimson whiter then the wooll are they defiled like the Menstruous cloath no are they leprous as was Naaman the Assirian no they are purer then the purest Nazarene What hath the flesh to pleade against mine true it is before I came to live in them their minds were clouded with Egyptian darkenesse there wils resisted my words of reconciliation their affections were involved in things terrene and sublunarie their hearts harder then the rockes or milstone and their consciences were the habitation of the blacke fiends of darkenesse but since I tooke up my rest in them I appeared the glorious light of the Gospel of life and redemption I have removed their darkenesse I have made them conformable to my sacred and holy wil I have set their affections aloft in the heavenly places I have softened their obstinate and obdurate hearts and have clensed their consciences from sin by my blood most pretious Now old things are past away and all things are become new now they are my workmanship created in Me to good workes that they should walke in them Now my peace my joy my love my grace and my liberty dwells in them Am I not King and Lord commander in the soule Am I not prince and Lord defender of the conscience Am I not Master and governour of the affections yea though sinne is in their flesh yet my grace is in their spirits for I am in them both grace and glory therefore there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walke not after the flesh but after the Spirit What can the world say against those that are my redeemed and reconciled They will take away their good name I suffer the Angels of light to bespot their garments I permit the legalists to defame to blemish their conversations but the servant is not greater then his Master nor the Disciple then his Lord. If they take away their name I have given them a name which is written in the booke of life charectered it upon my breast for
that of Abell O ye prisoners of hope weigh consider and ponder whether the Law of sinne and death is like to the law of peace and life hath it revealed redemption to bondmen Adoption to slaves of hell and children of the devill reconciliation to those that shooke and quivered in my presence justification to those that were found unrighteous in my sight sanctification to those who have beene unholy before me and glorification to those that were shut out from the blessed fruition and communion of my Kingdome what mention hath it made of the death of the Lord of life and the incomparablenesse thereof of the blood of my dearely beloved sonne and the richnesse thereof of the crosse of the prince of glory and the conquest thereof If I speake of rest to my restlesse prisoners it is by the Gospel of Adoption If I speake of peace to Captives it is by my word of reconciliation If I speake of grace to them that are bound in the black chaines of darkenesse it is by my message of grace and salvation Is the voyce of my servant Moses like the voyce of my beloved sonne no he was slow of speech my son is swift to deliver my minde of grace to my people he was not eloquent but my beloved he hath the rarest sentences of grace and bounty Aaron his brother spake for him to Pharaoh but my beloved for all in matter of Mediation and to al in the matter of reconciliation hee was unwilling to speake to and for my people but my beloved hath beene willing to speake for my chosen and Adopted John 17.9 I pray for them I pray not for the world but for them which thou hast given me Heb. 5.7 Who in the dayes of his flesh offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and teares unto him that was able to save him from death and was heard in that he feared I gave to Moses the law of terrours to terrifie them that are wilfull sinners the law of horror to smite a horror into them that are incorriggable transgressors of severe equity to pronounce woe and miserie to them that live in sinne and iniquity I have honoured my sonne above my servant Heb. 3.5 6. And Moses verily was faithfull in all his house as a servant for a testimony of those things which were to bee spoken after but Christ as a Sonne over his owne house whose house are we if wee hold fast the confidence and the rejoycing of the hope firme unto the end Heb. 5.5 So also Christ glorified not himselfe to be made an high Priest but he that said to him thou art my son to day have I begotten thee The Son by eternall generation is above the son by Adoption I thought non worthy in heaven above in the earth below o under the earth worthy to deliver my minde my will my pleasure to my people but him whom I have made king Lord over my people there is none fit ot declare the words of eternall life but the fountaine welspring of life the words of peace Attonement reconciliation but he that by his blood hath purchased peace attonement and reconciliation the words of liberty freedome and redemption but hee that acquired by his death liberty freedome redemption Apoc. 5.9.10 And they sung a new song saying thou art worthy to take the booke and to open the seales thereof for thou wast slaine and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred tongue people nation and hath made us unto our God Kings and Priests we shall raigne on the earth The words of protection justification and sanctification by his death blood and righteousnesse sith hee hath protected his justified them through righteousnesse and sanctified them thorough his words John 17.17 hee hath spoken of peace that procured peace John 14.26 But the comforter which is the holy Ghost whom my Father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I said unto you Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you not as the world giveth give I it unto you let not your hearts be troubled neither let it be affraid Words of life and victory that obtained life and victory Apoc. 1.18 I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore Amen and I have the keyes of hell and death Words of joy and consolation being the pretious river and welspring of consolation John 16.22 And ye now therfore have sorrow but I wil see you again your heart shal rejoyce your joy no man taketh from you Who can speake words of my gratious glorious presence but Jmmanuell my presence who can speak words of life but him that is the spring of eternall life and Lord of life by conquest from the dead or who can speak words of liberty freedom redemption but him that I have appointed to be the deliverer of my people the Doctors have wondered at his sentences the people admired at his gratious speeches the Churches delectation was in the rarenss of his voice Cant. 5. the last His mouth is most sweet yea he is altogether lovely this is my beloved and this is my friend O daughters of Ierusalem If he speake from the throne of my grace and bounty his words are onely grace and bounty If hee speake from the throne of mercy and pitty he speakes nothing but of grace and pitty is it not thus recorded Mat. 12.18 19 20. Behold my servant whom I have chosen my beloved in whom my soule is well pleased I will put my spirit upon him and he shall shew judgement unto the Gentiles he shall not strive nor cry neither shall my man heare his voice in the streets a bruised reede shall hee not breake and smoaking flax shalhe not quench till he send forth judgement unto victory His words are life to the lifelesse grace to the gracelesse pitty to the pittilesse and truth to the hopelesse his words are freedome to the bound health to the sick healing to the wounded binding to the broken and riches to the poorest under heaven The words of Achitophel were like the words of an Oracle But the words of my beloved are Oracles his words surpasseth the words of Solomon he spake of the nature of trees of plants of hearbs and of all sublunarie things from the Cedar in Lebanon to the Hysop upon the walls The words of Christ are of grace of mercy of peace of truth from the highest mercy to the deepest miseries all were happie that might stand at the footsteps of Solomon to heare his wisedome but they are happie that may stand at the feet of Christ to heare the wisedome of Christ the Queene of Sheba came from the South to heare the wisedome of Solomon The Prisoners of Hope departs from the barre of Justice to heare of the riches and glory of Christ Solomon was the wonder and